Ramesh Inder Singh is a distinguished civil servant of the Punjab cadre and a recipient of the Padma Shri (1986) for his contributions to public administration.

He was the district magistrate of Amritsar from 1984 to 1987 and dealt with the tumultuous situation in Punjab in those years. The various army operations against militancy including Operation Blue Star Operation Woodrose and Operation Black Thunder 1 were conducted during this period.

In his forty-year career he has held many crucial appointments. He was principal secretary to the chief minister of Punjab for five years the chief secretary of Punjab for more than two years and from that position he took premature retirement from the IAS in 2009 to serve for five years as the chief information commissioner of Punjab. He has also worked with the World Bank as a consultant.

He now leads a retired life.