Christiaan van Veen is co-founder of Leitmotiv. He is an international human rights lawyer with a diverse background as a legal practitioner and advocate. Christiaan has worked as an attorney on EU law, competition, telecoms regulation, human rights and climate change. Between 2014 and 2020 he worked as senior advisor on the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. From 2019 to 2022 he founded and directed a pioneering research and advocacy project on the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights at NYU Law.