Valentina Pavel is a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute where she has been leading research exploring changes in the digital ecosystem that can enable countervailing visions for the use and governance of data.
Valentina has a legal background with expertise in data protection and digital policy. She is a former Mozilla Fellow at Privacy International where she developed the Our Data Future project and she previously worked as a digital rights policy advisor with ApTI Romania – member of the European Digital Rights (EDRi) network, the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online.
Featured work
Potential unreached: challenges in accessing data for socially beneficial research
An opportunity to enable access to platform data with the Data Use and Access Bill
Modelling access-to-data frameworks in the UK
What policymakers can learn from data sharing practice to enable research into online harms
Participatory and inclusive data stewardship
A landscape review
Private-sector data for public good: modelling data access mandates
This project aims to model the legal backbone necessary for enabling access to data mandates in practice.