Christoffer Horlitz

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Policy Advisor for Technology & Weapons Exports Control
Amnesty International
Christoffer Horlitz
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Christoffer is a policy advisor on human rights in the digital age and weapons export control at Amnesty International.

He has worked as an open-source researcher with the cutting-edge investigations agency Forensis/Forensic Architecture and conducted research on data usage for the UN Department of Peace Operations. As a Democracy Fellow at Humanity in Action, he investigated the use of AI and biometric data in border systems. From 2012 to 2023, he served as the artistic director of the award-winning Fuchsbau Festival for experimental arts and politics.

Christoffer holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Humboldt University, Berlin, and studied Politics and Arts at New York University and Sciences Po Paris.

Amnesty International
Forensis

How human rights investigators are leveraging new digital tools and open-source technologies to fight injustices

Libby McAvoy, Marija Ristic, Phoebe Walton, Christoffer Horlitz

Digital investigation techniques, including the use of open-source intelligence OSINT, are changing the field of human rights research. We will explore how these tools allow researchers to work across borders, to involve communities and to access new forms of data.
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Civil Society
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