Shami Chakrabarti CBE
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Shami is a human rights activist and Director of Liberty since 2003
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Shami has been Director of Liberty since September 2003. Shami first joined Liberty as In-House Counsel in 2001 where she became heavily involved in its engagement with the 'War on Terror' and with the defence and promotion of human rights values in Parliament, the Courts and wider society.
Biography:
Shami became the Director of Liberty in 2003 at the age of 34. With it, she became the country’s most prominent spokesperson against what she saw as the erosion of civil liberties. Since becoming Liberty’s Director she has written, spoken and broadcast widely on the importance of the post-WW2 human rights framework as an essential component of democratic society. A Barrister by background, she was called to the Bar in 1994 and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office from 1996 until 2001 for Governments of both persuasions. She is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation for the promotion of international relations, and received a CBE in 2007.
She is Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford in addition to being a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple. She was also invited to be one of six independent assessors advising Lord Justice Leveson in his Public Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the UK Press.
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