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. He co-ordinated the work of a Commonwealth Expert Group on Combating Corruption, which was endorsed by the 1999 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

He has expertise in international economic and sustainable development issues, including the challenges of good governance, combating corruption and poverty reduction, gained over twenty five years of experience at Transparency International, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the United Nations.

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