Vadim Pak

Vadim Pak is a lawyer and political scientist with extensive experience in human rights, international law, and governance. He spent nearly two decades at the European Court of Human Rights, working on a wide range of complex legal and institutional issues. He has also taught comparative human rights to U.S. undergraduates, focusing on differences between European and American approaches. Pak currently works at the Council of Europe on the sociotechnical dimensions of artificial intelligence, with a focus on its interaction with democratic values—human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. He contributed to the negotiation of the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on AI and supported the development of HUDERIA, a methodology for assessing and mitigating AI-related risks in the public sector. His work bridges law, policy, and emerging technologies in multilateral settings.