The Rt Hon Shami Chakrabarti CBE PC is a barrister, human rights campaigner and Labour Peer who has written and broadcast widely over recent decades.
She was Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2016 to 2020 and Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 to 2016. Prior to that she was Liberty’s In-House Counsel and a Home Office lawyer.
Called to the Bar in 1994, she is a Bencher of Middle Temple, the President of Birkbeck, University of London and a Visiting Professor of Practise at the LSE. She has been Chancellor of Oxford Brookes and Essex Universities and a Visiting Fellow at various others.
In 2012 she carried the Olympic Flag at the London Games and served as a panelist on the Leveson Inquiry into the ethics and practice of the media.
She is the author of three Penguin (Allen Lane) books: ON LIBERTY (2014), OF WOMEN (2017) and HUMAN RIGHTS - The Case for the Defence (2024).
