C.K. Mishra has been a career Civil Servant belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. He joined the Service (IAS) in 1983 and retired as Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. He has been spearheading the Indian efforts at addressing climate change issues and at policy interventions in matters relating to pollution and air quality. He led India’s negotiations at important forums such as United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Conference of the Parties (COP)) to assess progress in dealing with climate change; Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and various other multilateral events. He was also the administrative head of Forest & Wildlife conservation efforts in India where India saw continuous increase in forest cover. His interventions and policy initiatives have brought India in the category of very few countries in the world on course to achieve the 2 degree target of global warming. Prior to this, he was Secretary in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and also held the additional charge of the Ministry of AYUSH for some time. As Additional Secretary & Mission Director, National Health Mission, he led one of the largest public health programmes globally.