Christian Herman Engelbrecht

Institution

North-West University

Position

Doctoral researcher

Country

South Africa

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5674-9891

Information

Christian Herman Engelbrecht is a senior financial crime and compliance consultant and doctoral researcher at North-West University (NWU) in South Africa. His work bridges forensic investigation, digital anthropology, and virtual-world governance. He holds a Master of Arts in Digital Arts (cum laude), where his thesis, Agency and Labour in Virtual Worlds: The Anthropology of Doing Culture, examined how users create, negotiate, and sustain social and economic systems in virtual worlds.

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