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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sir Suma Chakrabarti
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Bath|KCB]]
| image = SirSuma.jpg
| caption =
| office = President of the [[European Bank for Reconstruction and Development]]
| term_start = 3 July 2012
| term_end = July 2020
| predecessor = [[Thomas Mirow]]
| successor = [[Jürgen Rigterink]] (Acting)
| office1 = [[Clerk of the Crown in Chancery]] [[Permanent Secretary]] to the [[Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Justice]]
| term_start1 = December 2007
| term_end1 = 2012
| primeminister1 = [[Gordon Brown]] [[David Cameron]]
| minister1 = [[Jack Straw]] [[Kenneth Clarke|Ken Clarke]]
| predecessor1 = [[Alex Allan]]
| successor1 = [[Ursula Brennan]]
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1959}}
| birth_place = [[Jalpaiguri]], West Bengal, India
| nationality = British, originally Indian
| spouse =
| alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]]
| color =
}}
'''Sir Sumantra "Suma" Chakrabarti''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB}} (born 1959) is a former British civil servant who served as president of the [[European Bank for Reconstruction and Development]] (EBRD) from July 2012 to July 2020.<ref>http://www.ebrd.com/news/2012/ebrd-shareholders-elect-uks-sir-suma-chakrabarti-as-next-president.html {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref><ref>http://www.ebrd.com/news/2016/ebrd-governors-elect-sir-suma-chakrabarti-president-for-four-more-years.html {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref> He was previously the highest ranking Indian in Britain's civil service,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-new-tournament/cid/889565|title=THE NEW TOURNAMENT|website=The Telegraph|location=Kolkota|access-date=2 December 2018}}</ref> serving as [[Permanent Secretary]] to the [[Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Justice]] and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from late 2007<ref>{{cite journal|title=Warrants Under the Royal Sign Manual|journal=[[The London Gazette]]|date=21 December 2007|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/58550|accessdate=16 February 2021|publisher=[[Government of the United Kingdom|HM Government]]|quote=The Queen has been pleased by Royal Warrant bearing date 10 December 2007, to appoint Sir Sumantra Chakrabarti K.C.B. as the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.}}</ref> until 2012.

==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).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ebrd.com/who-we-are/ebrd-president-sir-suma-chakrabarti.html}}</ref>

== Career in the civil service ==
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 [[Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions|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 [[List of witnesses of The Iraq Inquiry#December 8|gave evidence]] to [[The Iraq Inquiry]], discussing preparations for the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]].<ref name="BBC XII">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8401001.stm|title=Iraq details for aid workers 'were scanty before war'|date=8 December 2009|publisher=[[BBC News]]|accessdate=28 January 2010}}</ref>

From 2007 to 2012, he served as a [[Permanent Secretary]] (senior civil servant) to the UK's [[Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom)|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.<ref>[http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/cmb-chakrabarti.htm Suma Chakrabarti – Ministry of Justice] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704113503/http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/cmb-chakrabarti.htm |date=4 July 2008 }}</ref>

== President of the EBRD ==
Chakrabarti served two full terms as president from 2012 to 2020.<ref name="twoterms">{{cite news |title=Sir Suma Chakrabarti leaves EBRD Presidency after second and final term |url=https://www.ebrd.com/news/2020/sir-suma-chakrabarti-leaves-ebrd-presidency-after-second-and-final-term.html |agency=EBRD}}</ref>

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.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/us-not-speaking-up-on-global-development-multilateral-bank-president-says-284936 {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ebrd-complaint-exclusive/exclusive-ebrd-head-faces-investigation-call-over-dossier-on-directors-idUSKCN1MF2CZ {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/ebrd-president/ebrd-says-president-cleared-in-information-gathering-investigation-idUSL8N1YI3JK {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref>

== Later career ==
By the end of his term at EBRD, Chakrabarti denied any immediate plans to return to the UK civil service.<ref>https://www.easterneye.biz/exclusive-former-top-asian-civil-servants-worry-at-turmoil-in-the-service/ {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref>

On July 2, 2020, ODI announced the appointment of Chakrabarti as its next Chair of the Board of Trustees.<ref>https://www.odi.org/news/17127-statement-sir-suma-chakrabarti-new-chair-odi-board {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref> Also in 2020, he was appointed by the [[World Health Organization]]’s Regional Office for Europe to serve as a member of the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development, chaired by [[Mario Monti]].<ref>[https://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-releases/2020/announcing-the-pan-european-commission-on-health-and-sustainable-development-rethinking-policy-priorities-in-the-light-of-pandemics Announcing the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development: Rethinking Policy Priorities in the light of Pandemics] [[World Health Organization]], Regional Office for Europe, press release of August 11, 2020.</ref>

Chakrabarti serves as deputy chairman of the Council for Reforms for the Republic of Kazakhstan.<ref name="reformCouncil">{{cite news |title=President Tokayev Creates Supreme Council Dedicated to Reforming Kazakhstan |url=https://astanatimes.com/2020/09/president-tokayev-creates-supreme-council-dedicated-to-reforming-kazakhstan/ |agency=The Astana Times}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Chakrabarti is married and has one daughter.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}

== Offices held ==
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{{s-bef | before= [[John Vereker (governor)|John Vereker]]}}<ref>http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070701122455/http://www.dfid.gov.uk/aboutDFID/opd/opdnewsletter2002.pdf {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref>
{{s-ttl | title = [[Permanent Secretary]] of the [[Department for International Development]] | years= 2002–2008}}
{{s-aft | after = [[Minouche Shafik]]}}
{{s-bef | before= [[Alex Allan]] '''''Permanent Secretary of the [[Department for Constitutional Affairs]]''''' }}
{{s-ttl | title = [[Permanent Secretary]] of the [[Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Justice]] | years= 2008–2012}}
{{s-aft | after = [[Ursula Brennan]]}}
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{{s-bef | before= [[Thomas Mirow]]}}
{{s-ttl | title = President of the [[European Bank for Reconstruction and Development]] | years= 2012–2020}}
{{s-aft | after = [[Odile Renaud-Basso]] '''''President''''' }}
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==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090606125636/http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/chakrabarti.htm Profile on Ministry of Justice website]
* [http://www.ebrd.com/who-we-are/ebrd-president-sir-suma-chakrabarti.html EBRD website]
* [https://www.odi.org/ ODI website]

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