A social anthropologist by training and a development activist who has lived and worked with indigenous people and Dalit communities in India, Mr. Sandeep Chachra is currently the Executive Director of ActionAid Association. He also acts as Secretary and ex-officio member of the Governing Board, with no voting powers. Prior to this, Mr. Chachra was the International lead for ActionAid International’s, just and democratic governance and economic justice theme. He has worked in several capacities in ActionAid International and other development organisations for the last two decades. His publications include “Whose Freedoms? MDGs, as if people matter!”. He has written several papers, and developed resource packs for activists, including the most recent paper, “India and the National Question”. Sandeep Chachra is an active part of a collective in developing the Global Economic Literacy and Budget Accountability platform (http://www.elbag.org/) and the South-South Peoples Solidarity Forum (http://www.southsolidarityforum.org/). He has been involved with the work of peasant movements in Asia and Africa and has been a keen supporter of developing social movement platforms. He is also working on developing the South Asia processes for the World Forum of Alternatives.

Sandeep Chachra also volunteers time as the National Advisor on Homelessness and Urban Poverty to the Supreme Court Commissioners of India on Right to Food case.

Currently, Sandeep Chachra is also the Managing Editor of “Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy” (SAGE Publications). The journal seeks to renew debate on the agrarian question and to respond to challenges of the twenty-first century namely food, energy, climate and economic crises.