David Ruebain is a law professor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Culture, Equality and Inclusion at the University of Sussex. He is also an adviser to the football premier league on equalities, diversity and inclusion, the former director of legal policy at the equality and human rights commission and has been in the top 25 most influential disabled people in the UK.

In 2019, David joined Birkbeck as a Visiting Professor in the School of Law, continuing his interests in the intersection of law and policy, particularly relating to equality and human rights.

He has said: “issues are predominantly structural, by which I mean they are not only to do with behaviours, but are related to systemic arrangements, contexts and histories, which are often common across sectors.”