Amélie Hennemann-Heldt

Dr. Amélie Hennemann-Heldt brings a wealth of expertise from her distinguished career in digital policy and media research. She joined the German Federal Chancellery in 2022 and serves as the deputy head of division ‘General Digital Policy Issues’.

Prior to this, she worked as a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) and was associated with the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. She was also a lecturer in fundamental and human rights at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and at the University of Jena. Amélie completed fellowships with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, the Center for Cyber, Law & Policy at Haifa University, and the Weizenbaum-Institute.

In her research, she focused on platform regulation, social media governance, the impact of new technologies on the digital public sphere, and the exercise of fundamental rights in the context of algorithmic decision-making and autonomous systems. She co-founded the HBI Digital Disinformation Hub and co-edited a volume on the constitutionalization of social media. In her doctoral dissertation, she examined the horizontal effect of freedom of expression on social media platforms.