Professor Francesca Klug works at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), based in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance where she is a Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the Human Rights Futures Project. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and a member of the Advisory Committee for the LSE’s Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.  

Francesca was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Human Rights Incorporation Project at King’s College Law School where she assisted the Government in devising the model for incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law reflected in the Human Rights Act.

Francesca has acted as a Specialist Adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, carrying out a review of their working practices. She was also a member of the small Bill of Rights and Responsibilities Reference Group at the Ministry of Justice. She is an Academic Expert at Doughty Street Chambers and a trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, Rights and Humanity and Refugee and Migrant Justice.

From 2006 to 2009 Francesca was a Commissioner on the statutory Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and was formerly a member of its Steering Group. She worked as an independent academic advisor to ministers and officials on the Equality Act 2006, which set up the EHRC.

A former Director of the Civil Liberties Trust, Francesca was awarded an OBE for services to human rights and civil justice in the 2002 New Year Honours List. Francesca is a frequent broadcaster and has written widely on human rights, including Values for a Godless Age: the story of the UK Bill of Rights (Penguin, 2000). She is currently writing a sequel to this book, to be published by Routledge.