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Mauritius Dorn

Mauritius Dorn

Director of Policy & Public Affairs, Germany

Mauritius Dorn is Director of Policy & Public Affairs at ISD Germany. He drives ISD’s stakeholder management in Germany and at the EU level and coordinates ISD Germany’s evidence-based policy work. Mauritius has led and supported multiple projects on platform governance and compliance, including on recommender systems, as well as information manipulation, disinformation and media literacy. He has delivered numerous briefings to senior representatives from governments, parliaments and regulators, and has been featured in leading media such as BBC, TAZ and SZ.

Mauritius holds a double MSc/MA degree in Global Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Fudan University, as well as a BA in Sociology, Politics and Economics from Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen. Before joining ISD, he worked as a public affairs consultant in Berlin, advising public and private sector clients on digital policy and the digital economy.