K. Sabeel Rahman is a law professor at Cornell Law School. He recently served as the associate administrator in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Biden-Harris administration, where he was responsible for leading the administration’s regulatory policy, strategy, and review functions and played a lead role in implementing the president’s agenda on equity, competition, open government, and other aspects of governance reform. He previously served as president of Demos, one of the country’s leading racial justice think tanks and advocacy organizations. He is a leading legal scholar on issues of democracy reform, economic inequality, anti-monopoly policy, and participatory governance. Rahman is the author of Democracy against Domination (Oxford University Press, 2016), which won the Dahl Award for best book on democracy at the American Political Science Association, and coauthor of Civic Power (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which explores new approaches to institutional reform in the face of current threats to American democracy. In addition to his academic writing, he has published in the Atlantic, the New Republic, Boston Review, Dissent, the Nation, the Washington Post, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and other venues.

Previously, he was a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, visiting professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a fellow at New America. He has also served as a special advisor on strategies for inclusive economic development in New York City and from 2015–16 was a public member of the New York City Rent Guidelines Board.

Rahman earned his JD and PhD in government, both at Harvard University, as well as a master of science in economics and master of studies in sociolegal studies from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.