K. Sabeel Rahman is a professor of law at Cornell Law School. His academic research focuses on issues of democracy, governance, economic power, political economy paradigms, racial equity, and inequality. He works extensively with a range of think tanks, advocacy organizations, and foundations to develop novel approaches to addressing these issues in practice.

From 2021-2023, he served in the Biden-Harris administration where he led the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). From 2018-2021, he served as president of Demos, a national racial justice think tank and advocacy organization that played a key role in combatting voter suppression and developing and mainstreaming major policy ideas from climate justice to student debt relief to energy democracy. He also co-founded the Law and Political Economy Project.

He is the author of Democracy Against Domination (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Civic Power (with Hollie Russon Gillman, Cambridge University Press, 2019).