Lena Riecke is a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) in The Hague. Her research focuses on approaches and challenges to governing the market for commercial spyware. She conducts research at the intersection of law, intelligence studies, and cyber security governance.

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Lena Riecke is a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) in The Hague. Her research focuses on approaches and challenges to governing the market for commercial spyware. She conducts research at the intersection of law, intelligence studies, and cyber security governance. Lena holds a BA in Law from the University of Cambridge (first class), as well as a LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University (cum laude). 

During her undergraduate and postgraduate studies, Lena researched gaps in the protection afforded by international humanitarian law and international human rights law to civilian data from targeting during international armed conflict and studied the regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems. She was a Europaeum Scholar 2022-2023 and a Virtual Routes Fellow 2023-2024.