Brittan Heller

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Brittan Heller (Bluesky – LinkedIn – Threads – X) is a lecturer at Stanford University’s International Relations Program and a teaching fellow in the Program for Law, Science, and Technology at Stanford Law School.

She formerly prosecuted human rights offenses at the International Criminal Court and the U.S. Department of Justice, and was an inaugural AI and Tech Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights. She also facilitated the Christchurch Call and served on the Steering Committee of the High-Level Transatlantic Working Group on Disinformation, Hate Speech, and AI.

Heller frequently lectures about AI and statecraft at venues such as Davos, SXSW, and the Atlantic Live, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hill, and The Information. Her consulting clients include the World Economic Forum, the Council of Europe, the United Nations, world governments, and major technology companies. Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar in Privacy and Technology Law at the GW, as well as a Senior Non-Residential Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Stanford University.