Dr Velislava Hillman is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics where she researches on education, digital technologies, governance, and children’s rights. She is also a founder of Education Data Digital Safeguards (EDDS) and partner at Etoile Partners where she engages directly with education technology companies to build trust, transparency, and accountability around pedagogic evidence and companies’ data responsibilities and ethical practices. Dr Hillman’s work broadly lies in education, policy, and governance with focus on the impact of data-intensive algorithmic systems on children’s learning, human rights and freedoms and teachers’ roles in educational systems.