Vigjilenca Abazi is Lecturer in Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. In addition to co-founding Stella, she co-founded and leads the European Whistleblowing Institute. She is admitted to practise law in New York. Her scholarship and civic leadership have been widely recognised, including by the Obama Foundation’s Leaders Europe (2024) and the Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020). Vigjilenca holds a PhD and LLM from the University of Amsterdam and an LLM from Yale Law School, where she now serves on the Executive Committee. Before joining King’s, she was a tenured Assistant Professor at Maastricht University and held fellowships at Yale Law School (Information Society Project), NYU School of Law (Emile Noël Fellow), and Columbia Law School (Fulbright Scholar).