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
Ada Lovelace Institute convenes panel to explore data futures at RightsCon 2020
What's the path to achieving true agency over data?
Rethinking data and rebalancing digital power
What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?
Ownership or rights: what’s the path to achieving true agency over data?
Myths and themes to emerge from our panel discussion on data ownership at RightsCon 2020
The EU Data Strategy: three key questions
In this long read, we highlight three issues that arise out of the European Commission’s data strategy.