Daniel Gerring

Daniel Gerring (Corpus Christi, 1996) is a lawyer, charity sector leader and internationally recognised figure in EDI.

He helped found and now chairs the charity Refugees at Home, which has provided over 600,000 nights of free accommodation to refugees and asylum seekers and he sits on a number of other non-profit boards.

Daniel has been ranked in the top 15 in OUTstanding's top 100 LGBT+ Executives List worldwide (published by the Financial Times) and has been named Mentor of the Year at the British Legal Awards.

He is honoured to be a Leadership Fellow at Windsor Castle and to be a member of the Network Group for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global LGBT+ Rights.

Professionally, Daniel is a senior equity partner at City law firm Travers Smith, specialising in advice to pension funds. He is a founding member of Travers' DEI board, its Senior LGBT+ Champion and founded the firm's award-winning CSR programme. In 2023 he worked with the UK Pensions Regulator to produce the first regulatory EDI guidance for the UK’s £3,000,000,000,000 pensions industry.

Daniel is a champion of working mothers and fathers, drawing on his own experience of balancing his professional work with being dad to his 2-year-old son.

He has proactively supported the University’s LGBTQ@Cam programme, including securing its first corporate support - in the form of the Travers Smith lgbtQ@cam Doctoral Bursary.