Sándor Gurbai works for the Validity Foundation. He deala with the representation of the interests of people with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities at national, European Union, Council of Europe and UN levels and the legal redress of their violations. In addition, he is an external fellow at the Center for Human Rights at the University of Essex and the Essex Autonomy Project. His area of research is the right to autonomy of people with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities and aspects of discrimination based on disability. He obtained his PhD degree in law from the Pázmány Péter Catholic University.