Rainbow Murray is Reader in Politics at Queen Mary University of London and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. She is an expert on gender and representation, with a particular interest in France and the UK. She is the author of Parties, Gender Quotas and Candidate Selection in France and the editor of Cracking the Highest Glass Ceiling: A Global Comparison of Women's Campaigns for Executive Office. Her work has been published in journals including the American Political Science Review, the Political Research Quarterly, the European Journal of Political Research, Politics & Gender and Party Politics. She is a member of the executive committee of the Political Studies Association and a former convenor of its Women and Politics group.