Shri Sanjay Dwivedi is a Mechanical Engineer with B.E. from NIT Raipur and M. Tech. in Thermal Engg from MANIT, Bhopal.

He is an Alumnus of National Defence College, Delhi and IIM, Ahmedabad.

He is an IOFS [Indian Ordnance Factories Service] officer of 1988 batch. He also worked as Engineer in National Fertilizers Limited for 18 months before joining Ordnance Factories.

During his entire career, he served in several Units/Establishments and has acquired deep domain knowledge in the field of production of Tanks and Weapons and has served in various functional fields of Management like Production, Planning, Maintenance, Quality Assurance and Material Management.

While serving as Deputy Director General at OFB, Kolkata looking after Planning of the entire organization for a period of five years, he gathered a rich knowledge of products as well as various management matters of the entire organization and its linkages and functioning with other organizations. Thereafter, he served as General Manager of Ordnance Factory, Tiruchirapalli which is engaged in production of small arms and medium caliber weapons used in Battle Tanks.

He also served as First Secretary (Technical) at Embassy of India, Moscow for a period over four years from 2006 to 2011 gaining rich experience in the matters of international affairs in general and bilateral cooperation with Russia and other CIS countries, in particular.

He is well versed with various Technologies used in Armoured Vehicles such as T90s Tank, T-72 Tank, BMP-II and its variants, Mine Protected Vehicle etc.

He is currently working as Chairman and Managing Director of Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited, one of the seven Defence PSU carved out of erstwhile Ordnance Factory Board.