K. Sabeel Rahman

K. Sabeel Rahman is an American professor and author who is a professor of law at Cornell Law School. He served an associate administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2021 to 2023. Prior to joining the Biden administration, he served as president of the liberal think tank Demos from 2018 to 2021.

Education Rahman studied at Harvard University, receiving his bachelor's degree (B.A.), Juris Doctor (J.D.), and Ph.D degree in political theory. Additionally, he attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, studying law and economic development.

Career During his career, he has held fellowships at both New America and the Roosevelt Institute and served as co-chair of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project. Rahman once served as an analyst within the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs during the Obama administration, and he returned to the office as a senior counselor under President Joe Biden. He was a special advisor for economic development in New York City from 2014 to 2015 and served on the city's Rent Guidelines Board. The bulk of Rahman's work has focused on regulatory and administrative law, taking a neorepublican perspective on power and participatory democracy inspired by the work of John Dewey and Louis Brandeis.

Rahman is married to Noorain Khan, a director with the non-profit Ford Foundation.