Jyoti Kiran Shukla is an economist. She is the first woman to be the chairperson (with the rank of a state minister) of Rajasthan's Fifth State Finance Commission. She has been on the board of directors of Petronet, NBCC and HSCC. She is the director of an Indian culture centre in Latin America. Later she was an independent director with various corporate and PSUs. She has written books and papers, is a columnist, and runs her own podcast. She was the state spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajasthan.