hdog Amnesty International appointed Salil Shetty, an Indian who headed the UN Millennium Campaign, as its next secretary-general. Shetty took over in June 2010, succeeding Irene Khan. Shetty joined the United Nations in 2003 as director of the Millennium Campaign from ActionAid - an international development organisation. He had joined ActionAid in 1985 and was part of more than 30 programmes in Africa, Asia and across other developing regions