Shri Rishi Kumar Shukla is an IPS officer and served as the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from 02 February 2019 to 2 February 2021. Mr. Shukla has a post graduate qualification in Philosophy. He is a 1983 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. After his training stint at the National Police Academy, he was posted in Shivpuri, Damoh, Raipur, and Mandsaur districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. He has been trained in crisis management and negotiations in the United States, and was briefly associated with the Intelligence Bureau handling sensitive cases. Prior to being appointed as the director of the CBI, he was appointed the Director General of Madhya Pradesh Police and the chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Police Housing Corporation.