Carla Forster

Carla Forster is a student assistant in the research focus area Democratic Change and Knowledge.

She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Political Science and European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Sciences Po Paris, with a focus on digital policy. Carla completed her Bachelor’s degree in Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol. She is interested in the intersection of politics and law, particularly platform governance and its interplay with society and democracy.

Before joining HIIG, she completed internships at the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) and the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt), and led a project at the association Starke Demokratie e.V. on protecting people active in local politics from hate and violence. Prior to that, Carla worked in research and innovation policy in Brussels, as a student assistant at the University of Bristol, and as editor-in-chief of a student research journal.