Richard Lappin is Meta’s Head of Organic Content Policy for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He leads a team that develops and implements a set of content policies, the Community Standards, that outline what is and what is not allowed on Facebook and Instagram. Prior to joining Meta, Richard worked at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, United Nations and European Union on human rights and democracy issues. Richard holds a PhD on post-conflict democracy assistance from the University of Leuven and a LLM in international human rights law from the University of Oxford.