Kent is an intersectional feminist who loves to cook. He is a political economist with expertise in policy analysis. He is Professor of Health Policy and Director of Program Development with the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. As an academic activist he believes in the democratisation of opportunity and seeks to contribute to the development of a new social contract based on justice, fairness and rights. Kent has published widely on rights, gender, equity and governance in health – applying these lenses to a range of urgent global issues. Kent was the inaugural Director of the Healthier Societies Program at The George Institute for Global Health and retains an honorary appointment at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London.  Kent served as chief of strategy, policy and research at UNAIDS for over a decade and is ex-faculty of Yale University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. See Kent’s publications here.