Chandrashekhar Krishnan

Chandrashekhar Krishnan
Executive Director
Transparency International UK

Chandrashekhar Krishnan joined TI-UK in September 2004. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director for Strategic Planning at the Commonwealth Secretariat. From 1993 to 2000, he led the Commonwealth Secretariat's environmental work, which included climate change, several ministerial-level meetings on environment and support for the Iwokrama International Rainforest Programme in Guyana. He was also involved in several meetings of Commonwealth Finance Ministers and Senior Finance Officials during that period.

He has an extensive knowledge of international economic and sustainable development issues, including the challenges of good governance, combating corruption and poverty reduction, gained over twenty years of experience at the Commonwealth Secretariat and the United Nations. He has worked closely with governments, international development partners, the private sector, civil society organizations and the media.

He co-ordinated the work of a Commonwealth Expert Group on Combating Corruption in which TI participated as an Observer and contributed to its report, which was endorsed by the 1999 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

He is a member of the Crown Agents Foundation Council and the expert Advisory Panel of the United Nations Association of the UK.