Mr. Radha Krishna Mathur is a retired Indian IAS officer and a distinguished Indian bureaucrat.  He held the position of the first Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh from 2019 until 2023.  Before that, he served as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India and retired from that role in November 2018.  Mr. Mathur also held the position of Indian Defence Secretary, retiring two years after his appointment in May 2013.  Additionally, he served as the Defence Production Secretary of India, Secretary for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in India, and as the Chief Secretary of Tripura.

RK Mathur has occupied several significant roles within both the Union and Tripura Government, including Principal Secretary for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Finance in the Government of Tripura, etc.

Mr. Mathur holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and a Master of Technology in Industrial Engineering from IIT Delhi.  Furthermore, he has earned an MBA degree from the International Center of Public Enterprises (ICPE) in Ljubljana, Slovenia.