Katie Schwarzmann

Katie is a Foreign Qualified Lawyer from the UK. Prior to joining EGL, she worked as a human rights and public law solicitor in London where she brought the first case to challenge the UK government’s policy of indefinitely GPS tagging migrants.

Katie holds a First Class degree in History and Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. For her examination performance, she was awarded the Rowley Mainhood Prize, Arthur Tindal Hart Prize, Owen Scholarship and the Abdul Aziz Prize. Following graduation, she trained as a lawyer with the corporate law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she completed a secondment to the human rights NGO, Liberty. She then went on to work in the human rights departments of Hickman & Rose and Wilson Solicitors LLP.

In 2023, Katie was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel to America and Canada to prepare a comparative study on the uses and regulation of automated decision-support tools in the American, Canadian and UK immigration systems. Katie is also currently studying part-time for a Masters in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. She works on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.