Leonie Beyrle Barker is the Research Manager of the Public Interest Tech Lab, where she conducts and manages research on issues such as algorithmic fairness, data privacy, and surveillance technology, including as the head of the lab’s Weaponized Social Media Research Group. She teaches courses on technology science and research methods – at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard College – which harness methods from different academic disciplines to empower students from all backgrounds to investigate how technology impacts society.
Before coming to Harvard, Leonie was a lawyer at an international law firm in London where she specialized in cross-border disputes, global governance, and legal technology. She has a special interest in building adaptive governance systems for emerging technologies and has worked with the World Economic Forum on the risks arising from quantum computing.
Leonie holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School where she was a McCloy Fellow, and undergraduate degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, as well as law.
