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Andrii Paziuk is a Distinguished Fellow at the Social Cyber Institute.  He s a Professor of International Law at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, Ukraine where he specializes in cybersecurity, technology, and human rights law. Since 2023, he has served as a non-residential research fellow at Charles Sturt University's Artificial Intelligence and Cyberfutures Institute in Sydney, Australia. From 2012 to 2023, he was an associate professor of international law at Taras Shevchenko National University, the top ranked university in Ukraine. His research specializes in cybersecurity, data protection, privacy, and artificial intelligence policy and law. Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Paziuk has been instrumental in crafting critical legislation, including the Personal Data Protection Law (2010), the Cybersecurity Law (2017), and the Online Safety for Children Law (2021). His expertise was recognized with a service award from the Prosecutor General in 2021, following his significant contributions to a task force dedicated to enhancing the integrity of the Prosecutor General's Office from 2020 to 2021.

Since 2022, Dr. Paziuk has played a crucial role in a Council of Europe program, advising on criminal law reform to ensure the preservation of digital evidence documenting war crimes and severe human rights violations amidst Ukraine's ongoing military conflict. Internationally, Dr. Paziuk has contributed his expertise to the Council of Europe from 2017 to 2021, developing a course on human rights and internet governance for the National School of Judges of Ukraine. He also led the design of training materials to combat online childhood sexual exploitation and abuse from 2020-2021. Dr. Paziuk further enhanced national security frameworks as a senior cybersecurity policy advisor for the USAID-funded Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine project from 2020 to 2022, designing comprehensive national preparedness programs and governance reforms. Since December 2023, he has been instrumental in the World Bank-funded Digital Resilience Strategy for the Government of Ukraine, focusing on researching and closing regulatory gaps in cybersecurity and digital resilience. As a research fellow sponsored by the U.S. NSF EAGER IMPRESS-U program, he contributes by designing a Digital Operational Resilience Framework in Ukraine. As CEO of the Ukrainian Academy of Cybersecurity and Project Lead for the Ukraine's team at the EU’s ERASMUS+ project "Enhancing Cyber Literacy in Education," Dr. Paziuk advances cybersecurity education in Ukraine.

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Professor Andrii Paziuk

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