Permanent Secretary
Biography
Suma Chakrabarti was appointed Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice on 15 November 2007.
He began his career as an economist in the Botswana Government, joining the Overseas Development Administration (now the Department for International Development) in 1984. From 1996 to 2001 Suma worked in the Treasury, where he created the system of Public Service Agreements and at the Cabinet Office, where he headed the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat. He returned to DFID in 2002 as Permanent Secretary.
Suma is married and has one daughter.
Education
City of London School for Boys. New College, Oxford (BA in PPE, 1981). Sussex University (MA Econ, 1984).