Katie Ghose

Katie Ghose
Born	Katie Ghose 1970 Shoreham by Sea, England
Residence	London
Alma mater	Oxford
Occupation	Chief Executive of Electoral Reform Society
Known for	democracy campaigner

Katie Sushila Ratna Ghose is a British campaigner and lawyer. She is Chief Executive of the Women's Aid Federation of England.

Ghose was former Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society. She was previously Director of the British Institute of Human Rights and before that worked as a barrister and for a number of charities. She was National Chair of the unsuccessful YES! to Fairer Votes campaign in the 2011 UK Alternative Vote referendum. She has sought selection in several parliamentary seats for the Labour Party.

Katie Ghose was born in Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, to an Indian father and English mother. She went to Boundstone Community College in Lancing, Sussex and Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College.

Ghose read Law at Somerville College, Oxford. During her time at Oxford, she was Editor of the student newspaper Cherwell, and then studied for a Masters in Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.

Ghose has one daughter with her partner Andrew Harrop, the General Secretary of the Fabian Society.

After leaving university, between 1992 and 1994 Ghose worked as a parliamentary researcher and senior caseworker to Labour MP Greville Janner. She then became Parliamentary Officer for the Citizens Advice Bureaux.

Ghose qualified and practised as a barrister between 1997 and 1999, specialising in immigration, family and Human Rights law. She later wrote Beyond the Courtroom: a lawyer’s guide to campaigning, which was published by the Legal Action Group in 2005.

...
Wikipedia