Shami Chakrabarti

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shami Chakrabarti
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 16, 1969(1969-06-16)
Age	55
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Shami Chakrabarti Biography

Shami Chakrabarti is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 16, 1969 in London, England, United Kingdom. Sharmishta “Shami” Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, CBE, PC (born 16 June 1969) is a British Labour Party politician, barrister and human rights activist. She was director of Liberty the advocacy group that promotes human rights and civil liberties from 2003 until 2016. Between 2016 and 2020, she was the the Shadow Attorney General of England in England and Wales.

On September 10, 2001 she was a member of the human rights group Liberty.

In December 2005, the BBC Radio 4 Today programme ran a poll of listeners to establish “who runs Britain.” After many hours of debate, Today placed Chakrabarti on the shortlist of ten people “who may run Britain.”

She was shortlisted in the Channel 4 Political Awards 2006 for the “Most Inspiring Political Figure” award. It was voted for by the public and she came second to Jamie Oliver, above Tony Blair, David Cameron, George Galloway and Bob Geldof.

As an in-house counsel, Chakrabarti was appointed director of Liberty in 2003. In her role as director, she advocated against what they saw as “excessive” anti-terrorist measures that follow the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks within the United States, such as the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (ATCSA). The group is an outspoken opponent of new legislation to combat terrorism.

Shami Chakrabarti Net Worth

Shami Chakrabarti is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shami Chakrabarti 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chakrabati was married Martyn Hopper who was a litigation lawyer from 1995 until the time they split in 2014.

She was a law student in the London School of Economics, at one time serving as research assistant for Leonard Leigh who wrote a study about what he called the British approach to extradition and terrorism; the article was published in 1997. After receiving the LLB qualification in the year 1991, Chakrabarti got called for the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1994. The year 1996 was when she began as a barrister in Home Office. Home Office.

Johnny Mercer MP, a retired Army captain, chided Chakrabarti “almost child- like understanding of military operations” and for “trying to retrospectively apply European Human Rights Law to the battlefield”. Richard Kemp, a retired Army colonel and commander of the first Task Force Helmand in Afghanistan in 2003, accused Chakrabarti of being “one of [Shiner’s] greatest supporters”. He said that she had been saddened by Shiner’s downfall and had said that, before “losing his way”, he had “given good service to the public” and “did some very good work that has been upheld by a judicial inquiry”.

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On 18 April 2009, it was reported in The Times and The Daily Telegraph, that policemen who raided the parliamentary office of the Conservative frontbencher Damian Green and arrested him as part of an inquiry into the leaking of Home Office documents, had searched through e-mails and computer documents going back a number of years, using Chakrabarti’s name as one of the keywords. The Times reported her as saying that she believed the actions of Scotland Yard’s anti-terror squad “raises very serious questions about just how politicised, even McCarthyite, this operation was.”

Facts & Trivia

Shami Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Shami Chakrabarti celebrates birthday on June 16 of every year.

In July 2011, Chakrabarti was announced as one of the panel members of the Leveson Inquiry, a judicial inquiry into phone hacking in the UK. Chakrabarti described her invitation onto the Inquiry as “a daunting privilege” and said it reflected Liberty’s “belief in an appropriate balance between personal privacy and media freedom and above all in the Rule of law”.