Salil Shetty

Quick Facts

Full Name	Salil Shetty
Occupation	Civil Servant
Date Of Birth	Feb 3, 1961(1961-02-03)
Age	63
Birthplace	Bengaluru
Country	India
Horoscope	Aquarius

Salil Shetty Biography

Salil Shetty is one of the most popular and richest Civil Servant who was born on February 3, 1961 in Bengaluru, India. The British newspaper The Observer, where Amnesty International’s founder, who founded the organization in the year 1961, described the predicament resulting from Shetty’s demotion of staff members working on issues of the heart, such as women’s rights as well as the death penalty “Amnesty was one of 20th-century Britain’s greatest gifts to the world. Now it is a wreck.”

Since the beginning of 1990, Amnesty International has been working to establish strong global laws for international arms trade that would stop the spread of arms that are fueling inhumane acts of violence across the globe. Then, after two decades of campaigning under Salil Shetty’s leadership, The Arms Trade Treaty became a fact. In a session with the UN in New York in September 2014, St Lucia, Argentina, Czech Republic, Senegal, Bahamas, Uruguay, Portugal and Bosnia Herzegovina ratified the treaty which brought to the number of countries that have ratified at 53 and setting off an 90-day countdown before entry into force. in an interview on Vice News in the month of September, Shetty declared the following in reference to the Arms Trade Treaty:

Given his significant achievements at ActionAid, Shetty was then appointed the Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign from 2003 till 2010. The UN Millennium Campaign was established by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in

2002. The Campaign supported citizens’ efforts to hold their governments to account for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s). Under Salil Shetty’s leadership the campaign for the MDGs reached over a hundred countries across the globe and the MDGs gained a great deal of traction among decision makers and citizens alike.

In 2005, citizens groups, including NGOs, faith groups, trade unions, supported by the Millennium Campaign, mobilised for the MDGS/‘Make Poverty History’ campaign to increase awareness and pressuring governments into taking actions towards relieving absolute poverty. The campaign focused on the responsibility of developed countries, especially the G8 and European Union. The three focus areas for change were trade, debt and aid. Mass mobilisations were seen in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Norway and other developed countries.

The year 1983 was when Salil Shetty was hired from IIM-A by Azim Premji. He started work for Indian IT firm Wipro.

Salil Shetty Net Worth

Salil Shetty is one of the richest Civil Servant from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Salil Shetty 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Salil Shetty (born 3 February 1961) is an Indian human rights advocate who served as secretary general of human rights group Amnesty International (2010-2018) till 31 July 2018. In the past, he was the Director for the United Nations Millennium Campaign. Prior to joining the UN, he was the Chief Executive Officer of ActionAid.

Shetty was born in Bangalore. His mother, who passed away, Hemlatha Shetty, was active in women’s clubs and the father of his son, V.T. Rajshekar was active in his Dalit movement. Growing in India during the turbulent 1970s, he experienced the state of emergency in 1976 that resulted in the restriction of human rights as well as a heightened amount of activistism. He was educated at St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School in Bangalore. He graduated with an BCom on Advanced Accounting from St. Joseph’s College of Commerce in 1981. He also earned and an MBA that year from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad as well as the MSc degree in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics in 1991, with distinction.

Following this, Shetty joined ActionAid, one of the world’s most respected international development NGOs, rising up to head ActionAid’s operations in India and later Kenya in East Africa. Shetty was the first person from the global south to be appointed as the Chief Executive of ActionAid, 1998- 2003. Salil Shetty is credited with not just transforming ActionAid into a Southern- led International organisation, moving its global headquarters from London to Johannesburg in South Africa, but set off an important new trend in global development organisations to become more participatory and bottom up in their approach. The most recent major global organisation to move in this direction is Oxfam which has moved its headquarters to Nairobi, with an African woman CEO.

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The decentralisation of Amnesty International’s international secretariat, led by Shetty, has caused a serious dispute amongst the organisation’s staff. According to an article published by the Guardian on 2 December 2012,

Facts & Trivia

Salil Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Servant. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Salil Shetty celebrates birthday on February 3 of every year.

In 2014, Salil Shetty given the ‘Public Servant of the Year’ award by the prestigious Asian Awards in London. The Asian Awards is the only event that pays tribute to Asian success across all walks of life; emphasising inspiring achievements and highlighting inspirational role models in the fields of business, sport, entertainment, philanthropy and popular arts and culture.