A Cambridge-MIT educated, IIM Ahmedabad Professor turned Cabinet Minister.

Abhishek Mishra (born 29 August 1977) is an Indian politician and a former member of the legislative assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Prof. Abhishek Mishra is an ex-Cabinet Minister of Uttar Pradesh who represented UP in GST Council. Currently he is the National Secretary and Spokesperson of Samajwadi Party. He was a faculty of Business Policy Area (Strategy & Innovation) in IIM Ahmedabad. He completed PhD & MPhil in Strategy & Marketing from University of Cambridge (in collaboration with MIT, USA) and MSc. in Management from Glasgow, U.K. He successfully completed the full-time LiD program from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA. He has published two books apart from numerous papers, articles and professional academic papers. He has travelled extensively and spoken widely on national and global events, conferences, and international platforms like United Nations (UNESCO headquarters in Paris), Harvard University, MIT, Cambridge, London Business School, Melbourne and many many more. He has travelled extensively around the world and loves to paint and plays the piano.

He was elected to 16th state assembly election in 2012. He was awarded the “Adarsh Yuva Vidhayak Samman” for his glorious work as a legislator. He also contested Lok Sabha from Lucknow against BJP candidate Shri Rajnath Singh. He represented Samajwadi Party.^[1][2][3] Abhishek Mishra has a PhD in strategy and marketing from Cambridge. He has served the Home and Defence ministries as their consultant for the Sixth Pay Commission and trained batches of IAS and IPS officers, apart from working with various multinationals.^[4] He is one of the most prominent Brahmin leaders of Uttar Pradesh.^[5] He contested as an MLA ticket Sarojini Nagar seat in Lucknow in 2022.^[6] Prof. Mishra recently emphasised the importance of social media in the Uttar Pradesh Elections Campaigning.^[7]