Jennifer Rubin is a Professor of Public Policy and the Chair of the School for Government at King's. 

From 2021 to 2025, Jennifer served as Home Office Director General, Science, Technology, Analysis and Research (STAR) and Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser.

Before joining the Home Office, she was the Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK’s largest funder of economic and social research. 

Jennifer was also formerly Director of the Policy Institute at King's, where her principal research interests included migration, integration and intolerance; communities, crime and justice policy; and the intersections between public health and related areas such as alcohol and drugs policy.

Prior to this, Jennifer built and led the justice and home affairs research programme at RAND Europe for 10 years.

Jennifer obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge in social and political sciences at King’s College, following a first-class degree in European Politics at Loughborough University.