David Gibbs graduated with an undergraduate degree in Business Law, and a Master's degree in Commercial Law. In 2014 he completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia on 'Non-Executive Self-Interest: Legal and Governance Controls'. He is now a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire's Law School, teaching company and commercial law. In 2015 he was awarded the British Academy's Quantitative Skills Award and he will be working with the Eastern Academic Research Consortium for a year on a research project looking at private enforcement of directors' duties.