WG OSINV – Isabella Regan

Biography: Isabella Regan (MSc.) is a PhD researcher in criminology at the Department of Law, Society and Crime of Erasmus University Rotterdam (defending in 2026). Her research focuses on public and private actor involvement in open-source investigations of atrocity crimes. Through international interdisciplinary qualitative research among a wide variety of open-source practitioners she explores questions on shifting power dynamics and touches upon issues of legitimacy, authority, trust and justice in this context. Previously, Isabella lectured criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where she developed a course on digital evidence and conflict-related crimes. Moreover, she was senior research associate at international pro-bono law firm PILPG and project officer at Amnesty International the Netherlands’ human rights capacity-building programme. Isabella obtained a bachelor of science in Criminology and master of science (cum laude) in International Crimes and Criminology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.