Mikhail Aslanovich Pogosyan (Russian: Михаил Асланович Погосян, April 18, 1956, Moscow) is the General Director of the JSC Sukhoy Design Bureau.A Russian national of Armenian descent.

In 1979 he has graduated with honors the aircraft manufacturer faculty of the Moscow Aviation Institute and started his career at the engineering plant named after P.O. Sukhoy (now - JSC `Sukhoy Design Bureau`) where he works up today. He started as a designer engineer and then held the posts of the First Deputy Chief Designer (1992-1998), Chairman of Directors Board of the Design Bureau (1995-1999) and, eventually, General Director of the `Sukhoy Design Bureau` (starting from May 1999).

He is the author of 11 patents and inventions, 14 scientific papers, a Laureate of the State RF Prize in 1997 and Laureate of the Russian Government Prize in 1998, Doctor of Science.