Svea Windwehr is EFF's Assistant Director of EU Policy, focusing on issues related to platform regulation, user rights, surveillance, and artificial intelligence. Before joining EFF, Svea headed the Center for User Rights at the strategic litigation NGO "Society for Civil Rights" in Berlin, dedicated to strengthening and enforcing user rights. Previously, she worked at Google, was a Mercator Fellow at the German Ministry of Labour & Social Affairs and EFF, and served as an inter-institutional coordinator at the European Commission’s DG CONNECT. Svea is the co-chair of the nonprofit D64 – Center for Digital Progress e.V. and serves on the board of the German Digital Services Coordinator, which oversees the enforcement of the Digital Services Act.  Svea studied political science, international affairs, and law in Maastricht and Berkeley, and holds a master's degree from the Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.