Kim Rubenstein is a Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law and Co-Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra.

A graduate of the University of Melbourne and Harvard University, she is Australia's leading expert on citizenship, both around its formal legal status and in law's intersection with broader normative notions of citizenship as membership and participation.

In 2012 she was named in the first batch of Westpac '100 Women of Influence' Australian Financial Review awards for her work in public policy and in October 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Edna Ryan award for 'leading feminist changes in the public sphere'. She was the Director of the Centre for International and Public law at the ANU from 2006-2015 and the Inaugural Convener of the ANU Gender Institute from 2011-2012.

Kim is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and the Australia Academy of Social Sciences.

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