Valentina is a Legal Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, bringing relevant expertise on privacy and data protection and focusing on national and European data policy developments. She’s leading the Changing Regulations workstream of the Rethinking Data programme, a project designed to change the data governance ecosystem by transforming how we talk about data through our narratives, developing people-centred data practice, and envisioning a positive vision for the future of data regulation.

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.