Praveen Chakravarty
Praveen Chakravarty | |
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| President All India Professionals Congress | |
| Assumed office 15 November 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Shashi Tharoor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | India |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Occupation | venture capital and banking |
| Website | www |
Praveen Chakravarty is an Indian politician belonging to the Congress Party. He took over as chairperson of the All India Professionals' Congress from Shashi Tharoor on 15 November 2023. He is the Chairman of the Data Analytics department, appointed by Rahul Gandhi. He is the brains behind SHAKTI, a project that was created to modernise the Congress party. He along with P.Chidambaram drafted the NYAY scheme for the party's 2019 election manifesto with help from Nobel Laureate Prof. Abhijit Banerjee among others.
Chakravarty was a political economist scholar in a think tank, an investment banker and angel investor before entering politics. It was widely reported that Chakravarty will be the Congress candidate for Member of Parliament of the Upper House in 2021 from the state of Tamil Nadu.
Praveen Chakravarthy was appointed as a member of Empowered Action Group of Leaders and Experts (EAGLE) which was constituted by Indian National Congress on 2 February 2025 to monitor the conduct of free and fair elections by the Election Commission of India.