Mauritius Dorn is the Director of Public Affairs at ISD Germany, where he coordinates ISD’s digital policy recommendations on election-related online harms and presents them to political stakeholders at the EU level and in Germany. Currently he leads AHEAD.tech, a project to research systemic risks for elections in the context of the Digital Services Act (DSA). He also supports the Digital Policy Lab (DPL), an intergovernmental working group focused on policy responses to prevent and counter online disinformation, hate speech and extremism.

Mauritius previously conducted disinformation trainings with political parties and candidates, coordinated with other stakeholders from academia and civil society, and assisted in the design of awareness campaigns. Before this, Mauritius worked as a public affairs consultant in Berlin, advising clients from the public and private sector on their lobbying strategies in the area of digital policy and digital economy. Mauritius holds an MSc double degree in Global Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and Fudan University, as well as a BA in Sociology, Politics and Economics from Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen.