Kim Hoque is Professor of Human Resource Management and Vice Dean (People and Culture) at King’s Business School. He has researched and published widely on disability employment, particularly regarding the government’s Disability Confident scheme, trade union Equality Reps and Disability Champions, workplace disability equality practices, and disabled people’s employment outcomes. In 2013 he co-founded the Disability@Work research group. He was appointed as a commissioner on the Centre for Social Justice Disability Commission in 2020, and co-provided the secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Disability from 2017 to 2023. He is a member of the DWP’s Neurodiversity expert panel, and is a co-founder of the Disability Employment Charter (www.disabilityemploymentcharter.org), which outlines to government the policies needed to address disability employment disadvantage, and has now been signed by approaching 300 organisations. He has been included on HR Magazine’s ‘most influential’ list for the past two years.