Digital Policy Officer at the Federal Chancellery, Berlin

Amélie Heldt is a lawyer and has been associated with the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society since 2017 in the programme area Digital Society, in particular the Platform Governance project. She worked as a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute from 2017 to 2021. From 2020, she conducted research there in the sub-project “Integration Task and Integration Function of Public Service Media” as part of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ). Since January 2022, she has been a Digital Policy Officer at the Federal Chancellery.

Amélie Heldt works on platform regulation, social media governance, the impact of new technologies on opinion formation and public discourse, and the perception of fundamental rights in the context of algorithmic decisions and autonomous systems. In her dissertation (funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation with a PhD scholarship), she investigated the spillover effect of freedom of expression on social media platforms.

After studying law at the Universities of Paris Ouest Nanterre and Potsdam and additional studies in design thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute, she completed her legal clerkship at the Kammergericht in Berlin.

Amélie was a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (USA) in 2019, and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Cyber, Law & Policy at Haifa University (Israel) in 2018. She was a member of the editorial board of the JuWiss blog (Young Scholars in Public Law) and has been a member of the editorial board since 2022.