David Kinley

Professor David Kinley holds the Chair in Human Rights Law at The University of Sydney. He has previously held positions at, i.a., Cambridge University and The Australian National University, and most recently was the founding Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University (2000-2005). He is author and editor of eight books and more than 60 articles, book chapters, reports and papers on, i.a., human rights and business. He has also worked for 15 years as a consultant and adviser on international and domestic human rights law in Vietnam, Indonesia, South Africa, Thailand, Iraq, Nepal, Laos, China, and Myanmar/Burma, and for a number of organisations including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, AusAID, and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, and a number of transnational corporations, and NGOs. He has also previously worked for three years with the Australian Law Reform Commission and two years with the Australian Human Rights Commission.