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.