Francesca Klug OBE
Professor Francesca Klug is a Visiting Professor at LSE Human Rights and serves
on the Advisory Board of Sheffield Hallam’s Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice. Formerly Director of the Human Rights Futures Project at the LSE and a Senior Research Fellow at King’s College Law School, she helped design the model for incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law reflected in the Human Rights Act 1998. Francesca was a founding Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, leading its Human Rights Inquiry, and has advised Parliament and the Ministry of Justice on equality and rights legislation. A trustee and advisor to several human rights and law reform organisations, she is the author, among other publications, of Values for a Godless Age and A Magna Carta for All Humanity, exploring the ethics of human rights and its impact on public and private life.