Pat de Brún is an international human rights lawyer and researcher, specializing in the intersections between technology and human rights.

He is currently the Head of Big Tech Accountability for Amnesty International and Deputy Director of Amnesty’s global Technology and Human Rights Programme (Amnesty Tech). He leads a team which works to investigate and expose the human rights harms linked to Big Tech's business practices, and which campaigns and advocates for for systemic reforms which can protect people's rights in the digital era.

Pat has worked with a variety of human rights organisations and activist groups for the past ten years, including periods working with the UN’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, and various local and international human rights organisations based in Southeast Asia and Europe.

Pat has previously led investigations into Meta (Facebook)’s role in the persecution of the Rohingya people in Myanmar and Big Tech’s role in silencing human rights activists in Vietnam.