Suma Chakrabarti
Sir Suma Chakrabarti | |
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President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | |
In office 3 July 2012 – July 2020 | |
Preceded by | Thomas Mirow |
Succeeded by | Jürgen Rigterink (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India |
Nationality | British, originally Indian |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Sir Sumantra "Suma" Chakrabarti KCB (born 1959) is a British civil servant who served as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from July 2012 to July 2020.[1][2] He was previously the highest ranking Indian in Britain's civil service.[3]
Early life and education
Chakrabarti was born in 1959 in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. He was educated at City of London School; New College, Oxford (BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics); and the University of Sussex (MA in Development Economics).[4]
Career
Chakrabarti joined the UK's Overseas Development Administration (ODA), the predecessor to the Department for International Development, in 1984 as a senior economic assistant working on macroeconomics issues and UK aid projects. He previously worked in Botswana on an Overseas Development Institute Fellowship. He was seconded by the UK government to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in the 1980s. On returning to the ODA in London, he became Private Secretary to the Conservative Lynda Chalker, then Minister of State for Overseas Development based at the Foreign Office. Chakrabarti subsequently became Head of Aid Policy and Resources.
He moved to H.M. Treasury in 1996 before taking a Cabinet Office post responsible for creating the new central Performance and Innovation Unit to support the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, co-ordinating reviews of long-term issues that cross public sector institutional boundaries. Still in the Cabinet Office, he headed the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat, also maintaining a foot in the then Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
In 2001, returning to the Department for International Development (DfID), the successor body to the ODA, Chakrabarti became DfID Director-General for Regional Development Programmes, managing 1,200 staff in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. On 8 December 2009, he gave evidence to The Iraq Inquiry, discussing preparations for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[5]
From 2007 to 2012, he served as a Permanent Secretary (senior civil servant) at the UK's Ministry of Justice. During that period, he also held office as Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, and, as such, was responsible for the running of the Crown Office, under the directions of the Lord Chancellor. He was appointed on 15 November 2007.[6]
In his last weeks as EBRD President, Chakrabarti made a number of think tank appearances where he discussed the current state of international development and its principal actors. [7] [8] [9]
On July 2, 2020, ODI announced the appointment of Chakrabarti as its next Chair of the Board of Trustees. [10]
Personal life
He is married and has one daughter.[citation needed]
Offices held
References
- ^ http://www.ebrd.com/news/2012/ebrd-shareholders-elect-uks-sir-suma-chakrabarti-as-next-president.html
- ^ http://www.ebrd.com/news/2016/ebrd-governors-elect-sir-suma-chakrabarti-president-for-four-more-years.html
- ^ "THE NEW TOURNAMENT". The Telegraph. Kolkota. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ https://www.ebrd.com/who-we-are/ebrd-president-sir-suma-chakrabarti.html.
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(help) - ^ "Iraq details for aid workers 'were scanty before war'". BBC News. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
- ^ Suma Chakrabarti – Ministry of Justice Archived 4 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/us-not-speaking-up-on-global-development-multilateral-bank-president-says-284936
- ^ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ebrd-complaint-exclusive/exclusive-ebrd-head-faces-investigation-call-over-dossier-on-directors-idUSKCN1MF2CZ
- ^ https://www.reuters.com/article/ebrd-president/ebrd-says-president-cleared-in-information-gathering-investigation-idUSL8N1YI3JK
- ^ https://www.odi.org/news/17127-statement-sir-suma-chakrabarti-new-chair-odi-board
- ^ http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070701122455/http://www.dfid.gov.uk/aboutDFID/opd/opdnewsletter2002.pdf
External links
- People educated at the City of London School
- Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Justice
- Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for International Development
- Civil servants in the Ministry of Overseas Development
- Civil servants in the Cabinet Office
- Private secretaries in the British Civil Service
- Members of HM Government Economic Service
- Living people
- Alumni of New College, Oxford
- Alumni of the University of Sussex
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Presidents of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Indian emigrants to England
- 1959 births
- English people of Bengali descent
- People from Jalpaiguri
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom