Shami Chakrabarti

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Biographical Information

"Shami Chakrabarti has been Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) since September 2003. Shami first joined Liberty as In-House Counsel on 10 September 2001. She became heavily involved in its engagement with the "War on Terror" and with the defense and promotion of human rights values in Parliament, the Courts and wider society...She is Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, a Governor of the British Film Institute, and a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford in addition to being a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple. She was recently invited to be one of 6 independent assessors advising Lord Justice Leveson in his Public Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the UK Press."

Affiliations

• Privacy International
• Ditchley Foundation
• Patron, Children's University
• Asian Women of Achievement Awards