Karam Singh is an experienced leader and manager with extensive and progressive experience in the national and international civil society, government, private sector, academia and philanthropy. He is passionate about access to justice, the realisation of rights and the fight against corruption. His areas of expertise include research, strategy and project planning and implementation, fundraising, investigations, anti-corruption programming and various aspects of public law. Karam is an admitted attorney in the state of New York and South Africa. He spent several years as a project specialist at the Special Investigating Unit before taking up various senior management roles, including Head of Research and Provincial Manager with the South African Human Rights Commission. He then spent some time in philanthropy with the Open Society Foundation South Africa (OSF-SA) as Programme Director, including spearheading the OSF-SA access to justice programme. After spending a short time in private legal practice, from 2019, Karam spent over five years at Corruption Watch, first as Head of Legal and Investigations and then as Executive Director. He has degrees from Brown University, Georgetown University Law Center, UCT and the University of Pretoria, where he received his LLM in Constitutional and Administrative Law. He has extensive research, writing and media experience and is a frequent media commentator on issues relating specifically to anti-corruption.
As Head of Liaison and Advocacy, Karam leads GGA’s various engagements with the African Union and in support of GGA’s various thematic areas. He will also lead GGA’s anti-corruption advocacy and our initiative in support of the establishment of an International Anti-Corruption Court.
