Pavlina Pavlova

#ShareTheMicInCyber Fellow, New America

Pavlina Pavlova is a #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellow at New America, where she explores the gendered impacts of data weaponisation, analysing how malicious data breaches harm individuals through multiple extortions and the ramifications of such cyberattacks for societal resilience and international security. As a Public Policy Advisor at the CyberPeace Institute, she has driven civil society engagement in UN processes on cybersecurity and cybercrime.

Pavlina served as an official at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). She was appointed as the OSCE Chairmanship’s Liaison Officer and coordinated OSCE programmes that strengthened the human dimension of security. Starting at the European Parliament, her policy expertise now spans over a decade in advisory roles covering technology, security, and human rights at international organisations and national institutions. Her research at the intersection of technology and governance has been featured and published by the Yale MacMillan Center, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and Cambridge University, among others.

Pavlina is an internationally recognised speaker on tech policy and cyber diplomacy. She has engaged in policy discussions worldwide, briefed the European Parliament on the use of cyber in international conflicts, lectured at the European Academy of Diplomacy on coordinated cyber operations and disinformation, trained ambassadors from African and developing countries on cyber diplomacy, addressed the protection of critical infrastructure against cyber operations at the Oxford Process on International Law Protections in Cyberspace, and presented on the landscape of cybersecurity and diplomacy at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.