Andrea Leiter is the Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law and a Fellow at the Zug Institute for Blockchain Research. Her work explores global inequality and transnational governance through private actors in the digital economy.
Trained in international law, she examines how law and technology mediate understandings of value and structure our relationship to land and community.
Her current research project, ‘(Re)coding Values in the Digital Economy’, is funded by the Dutch Research Council VENI grant. She is the author of ‘Making the World Safe for Investment’ (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which traces the historical foundations of property protection in international economic law.
Alongside her academic work, she has co-developed ecological and social justice initiatives at the intersection of ecology, technology and economics, including the Sovereign Nature Initiative and A Thousand Breaths.