Dr. Surendra Kumar Ahirwar is a 1996 batch officer of Indian Railway Traffic Service. He is currently posted as Joint Secretary in the Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industries, looking after Logistics. Before joining Ministry of Commerce and Industries in 2018, he has worked in Ministry of Railways in various positions, managing operations, marketing, infrastructure planning, project implementation, PPP Project planning & implementation and Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project etc. He has been recipient of many awards including the National Award for improving efficiency in operations of Railways.

Dr. Ahirwar has Bachelor Degree in Medicine and has done Professional Courses in PPP from UNESCAP, Certificate Course in Project Finance & PPP from Institute of Finance, New York, besides the formal training in Management of High Speed Railways from Chengdu, China. He has represented Government of India at international conferences like SMART RAIL Conference on Passenger Rail and Transit Technology at Charlotte, NC, USA and has associated with High Tech. Partnership Corporation between India Germany, the Supply Chain Pillar of Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, North South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and recently announced India Middle East Europe Economic Corridor to name a few.

Dr. Ahirwar has been associated with the Logistics Division since 2018 as Director, and as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry from February 2020, he has been looking after International Trade with regards to North East Asia, CIS, GeM, besides Logistics. In DPIIT, as Joint Secretary, has been associated with the launch and implementation of the flagship initiatives of Government of India viz PM GatiShakti and National Logistics Policy. He has also chaired the Working Group for ‘Logistics for Trade’ under G-20 Presidency of India and has been instrumental in adoption of High Level.