Clementina Salvi

Senior Advisor, Online Safety e Digital Media Integrity

Clementina Salvi is a qualified lawyer admitted to the Milan Bar and a researcher specializing in national and European criminal law, human rights, artificial intelligence, and digital regulation.

She has gained solid professional experience at leading Italian law firms in the field of criminal law, initially focusing on white-collar crime and corporate criminal liability, and later specializing in post-conviction criminal litigation and human rights, with a particular emphasis on litigation before the European Court of Human Rights.

She provides consultancy services to international organizations such as AWO Agency, which focuses on technology, data, governance, and risk, working on projects related to risk assessment and the monitoring of potentially illegal content on major social media platforms, on behalf of a prominent institutional client.

In June 2025, she served as an expert consultant to the ACE Commission of the UK Government’s Homeland Security Group, contributing to the development of policies aimed at countering the risks associated with deepfakes in criminal proceedings.

She is currently a research fellow at the University of Liverpool, where her work focuses on deepfakes, disinformation, and online safety in the context of European law. On these topics, she has published with Oxford University Press, Hart Publishing, and the Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal, and she regularly speaks at international conferences.

From 2022 to 2024, she served as the national rapporteur for the United Kingdom within the framework of the international project Criminal Proceedings and the Use of AI – Challenges for Common Criminal Procedure Principles, coordinated by the University of Luxembourg. The project will culminate in the publication of the volume AI Evidence and Criminal Proceedings (Hart, forthcoming).

She graduated with honors in Law and holds an LL.M. in Criminal Justice (with distinction) as well as a Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London, where she completed a dissertation on the criminalization and regulation of deepfakes.