Sir Suma Chakrabarti is Chair of the Board of Trustees of ODI, a global affairs think tank. Sir Suma also advises Emerging Market leaders on economic development and public administration reform, is a member of the Board of ReNew Energy Global PLC, a U.S. listed public company, of the Advisory Board of BeyondNetZero, and of the International Advisory Council of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development. He also served recently as a member of the WHO Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development and the Commission for Smart Government in the U.K.
Sir Suma was President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2012 to 2020, focused on growing the private sector in emerging markets. Prior to that Sir Suma was Permanent Secretary (most senior civil servant) in the U.K. Department for International Development and the Ministry of Justice. Sir Suma was knighted in 2006 for his work in international development and U.K. public service reform. He also holds many other prestigious honours from the U.K. and a range of emerging markets.