Speaker Bio
Baroness Chakrabarti CBE is a lawyer currently serving in the British shadow cabinet as shadow attorney general for England and Wales.
She received her bachelor’s degree in law from the London School of Economics and was called to the bar in 1994. She worked as a lawyer in the British Home Office from 1996 until 2001, serving under Labour and Conservative governments.
In 2001, Ms. Chakrabarti joined Liberty, also known as the National Council for Civil Liberties, serving as in-house legal counsel. Liberty is a cross-party membership organization campaigning for the protection of civil liberties and the promotion of human rights through the courts, Parliament and throughout society. She was appointed director of Liberty in 2003, and was a member of the panel of the Leveson Inquiry, the judicial inquiry into phone hacking in the United Kingdom, in 2011. She took up her post as shadow attorney general in October 2016.
Ms. Chakrabarti has received numerous awards and honors. She is an honorary professor of law at the University of Manchester, an honorary fellow of Mansfield College at the University of Oxford, and Master of the Bench of Middle Temple, She previously served as chancellor of the University of Essex from September 2014 until July 2017. She was appointed a commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2007, and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in September 2016.
Ms. Chakrabarti is a regular commentator on human rights advocacy issues and author of “On Liberty,” published in 2014.
She received her bachelor’s degree in law from the London School of Economics and was called to the bar in 1994. She worked as a lawyer in the British Home Office from 1996 until 2001, serving under Labour and Conservative governments.
In 2001, Ms. Chakrabarti joined Liberty, also known as the National Council for Civil Liberties, serving as in-house legal counsel. Liberty is a cross-party membership organization campaigning for the protection of civil liberties and the promotion of human rights through the courts, Parliament and throughout society. She was appointed director of Liberty in 2003, and was a member of the panel of the Leveson Inquiry, the judicial inquiry into phone hacking in the United Kingdom, in 2011. She took up her post as shadow attorney general in October 2016.
Ms. Chakrabarti has received numerous awards and honors. She is an honorary professor of law at the University of Manchester, an honorary fellow of Mansfield College at the University of Oxford, and Master of the Bench of Middle Temple, She previously served as chancellor of the University of Essex from September 2014 until July 2017. She was appointed a commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2007, and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in September 2016.
Ms. Chakrabarti is a regular commentator on human rights advocacy issues and author of “On Liberty,” published in 2014.
Full Name
Shami Chakrabarti
