Peter Reading is the Director of Legal Policy at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and is leading the Commission's work on the production of Codes and guidance on the Equality Act 2010. Previously he has worked as a Senior Lawyer in the Legal Policy Team at the EHRC and at the Commission for Racial Equality. He has been heavily involved in influencing the development of the Equality Act 2010 having worked on various aspects of the Act since the Discrimination Law Review began in 2005.

Peter is also an independent equality and human rights consultant to Warwick University, an Executive Board Member of the Discrimination Law Association and is a co-author of the Oxford University Press, Blackstone's Guide to the Equality Act published this month."