Professor David Kinley holds the Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Sydney and is an Expert Member of Doughty Street Chambers in London. A former Senior Fulbright Scholar, he specialises in relations between the global economy and human rights. He has worked with a wide range of international organisations including the UN, the World Bank, and the EU, as well as government agencies, law firms, multinational corporations and NGOs in Australia, Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, Europe and North America. His recent books include: Civilising Globalisation: Human Rights and the Global Economy (CUP, 2009), Principled Engagement: Promoting Human Rights in Repressive States (Edward Elgar, 2013, with Morten Pedersen), The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OUP, 2014, with Ben Saul & Jacqui Mowbray) which won the American Society of International Law Book Prize in 2015, and Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights  (OUP, 2018) which won the Axiom International Business Book Award in 2020. Currently he’s finishing work on one book (The Liberty Paradox: Living with the Responsibilities of Freedom) and embarking on another, narrating the extraordinary story behind the iconic House of Lords’ case of Cape v Lubbe in 2000 on corporate liability for asbestos poisoning. His TEDx video: How Much Do Banks Owe Us? was published in 2017.