Michael Pinto-Duschinsky (born June 1943) is a Hungarian-born British scholar, political consultant and writer.

[11][12] He graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford[11] with first class honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and subsequently earned an MA in government at Cornell University and a D.Phil.

He has had a variety of positions advising organisations and governments on constitutional reform, the promotion of democracy, anti-corruption policies, and the funding of political parties and elections.

[15] Pinto-Duschinsky was a frequent contributor to the debate following the 2014 Lutfur Rahman voting affair, and estimated that there were over 6.5 million "ghost voters" in the electoral register.

David is a former President of the Oxford Union[22] and was the unsuccessful Labour parliamentary candidate for then-Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's constituency of Tatton in 2015[23] and contested Hendon in 2019, where he finished in second place.