Milla Vidina

Senior Policy Officer at EQUINET - European Network of Equality Bodies

Speaker

Milla Vidina is a Senior Policy Officer at Equinet, leading Equinet’s work on AI and algorithmic discrimination with a focus on the EU’s AI Act and related digital rights policy and legal initiatives, such as the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. She was previously the Bulgarian Equality Body international affairs unit lead, having worked for civil society organizations supporting refugees, the UN World Food Programme and political campaigns in Bulgaria and the USA. She is a prize-winning (full scholarship) graduate of Princeton University’s Department of Politics (M.A.) and holds a bachelor's degree in political science and legal studies from Macalester College (B.A.), U.S. She pursues doctoral work on the interaction between the EU’s AI Act and non-discrimination law and has published on the topic.