Dr.Abhishek Manu Singhvi

Dr. Abhishek Manu  Singhvi is an eminent jurist,  parliamentarian, visible media personality, well known columnist, author and  commentator. He topped India at the school leaving Indian School Certificate exam and did BA Economics Hons, St Stephen’s College, and MA and PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. Abhishek Manu Singhvi also taught at St. John’s College, Cambridge and did a summer program, PIL, from Harvard, USA. He has lectured to student/faculty groups and general audiences at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Boston MIT and George Washington Universities, to NGOs and think tanks (like Heritage Foundation, International Council of World Affairs in Washington, DC, USA) and addressed several international conferences, including those at Paris and Pakistan.

 Abhishek Manu Singhvi is a Member of Parliament; the senior most National Spokesperson of the Congress Party; the youngest designated  Senior Advocate, Supreme Court (at age 34); a former  and  youngest Additional Solicitor General of India (ASG) (at 37) and former elected Vice President, Supreme Court Bar Association. Abhishek Manu Singhvi  is currently the Chairman of the AICC All India Law and Human Rights Department and Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on Law,  Justice, Personnel & Grievances. Abhishek Manu Singhvi  was formerly Vice Chairman of Congress’ Media Department. The Rajya Sabha MP is also the Congress National Spokesperson and is a former Additional Solicitor General of India. He is also a front ranking senior Counsel at the Supreme Court and has appeared in several landmark cases on constitutional law, commercial and civil law. He has also been feted with the Global Leader of Tomorrow Award by the World Economic Forum at Davos.