Leonie Barker Beyrle is a Preceptor in Tech Science and Law at the Department of Government. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Research Manager of the Public Interest Tech Lab at Harvard. She teaches courses on technology science, technology governance, and research methods at both the undergraduate level (FAS) and the graduate level (HKS), which harness methods from different academic disciplines to empower students from all backgrounds to investigate how technology impacts society. She is a UK-trained attorney and her prior legal work focused on international arbitration disputes involving sovereign states, treaty negotiation 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 governance of quantum technology. 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.
Contact
leonie_beyrle@hks.harvard.edu
Kennedy School of Government
Littauer Building
79 JFKennedy St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Subfields
International Relations | Methods and Formal Theory
Academic Interests
Data Science & Political Methodology | Judiciary & Public Law | Public Policy | Technology & Governance
Research Methods
Experiments | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods