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Arne lives in Berlin, Germany. He works at the Open Knowledge Foundation on the Freedom of Information Portal FragDenStaat.de. Apart from that, he is a part-time freelance journalist, a city guide on lobbyism and an activist for Transparency International on corruption in academia. Arne has studied political science in Berlin and Istanbul. He likes watching films and dancing (mostly in his living room).
Updated May 2019
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