Professor David Kinley holds the Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Sydney. A former Senior Fulbright Scholar, he specializes in relations between the global economy and human rights. He has worked in this field for more than 25 years including with a wide range of international organizations such as 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 (2009), Principled Engagement: Promoting Human Rights in Repressive States (2013, with Morten Pedersen), The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2014, with Ben Saul and 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  (2018) which won the Axiom International Business Book Award in 2020.  His latest book, Liberty is not License: Why Freedom is Everybody’s Responsibility is due to be published in 2021. He is currently working on another book narrating the extraordinary story behind the iconic Cape v Lubbe case on corporate liability in the House of Lords in 2000. He also has a TEDx video:  How Much Do Banks Owe Us? Born and raised in Northern Ireland, he obtained degrees in business, philosophy, law and human rights at Sheffield and Cambridge Universities before moving to Australia in 1990.