Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti is a human rights lawyer and campaigner, Labour Peer and was Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales. Prior to that, she was the Director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) and its In House Counsel; Home Office laywer; Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and the University of Essex; and Honorary Professor at the Universities of Bristol and Manchester and the London School of Economics. She has written and broadcast widely, and is the author of three books: On Liberty (2014), Of Women (2017) and Human Rights: The Case for the Defence (2024).