Salil Shetty

Secretary General, Amnesty International

Salil Shetty has been head of the world’s largest human rights organisation Amnesty International since 2010, and is a long-term campaigner against injustice, poverty and the abuse of civil liberties. In 2015 he addressed the UN’s Sustainable Development Summit, highlighting western governments’ hypocrisy in continuing to practise mass surveillance and manufacture arms. Amnesty’s first Indian head, he has aimed to make the organisation truly international during his five years in charge, and one of his priorities is the long-awaited closure of Guantanamo Bay. Shetty was raised in Bangalore by a lawyer mother active in women’s groups and a journalist father who was a member of the Dalit movement. Prior to Amnesty he was chief executive of ActionAid and then director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign.

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