Valéria Silva is affiliated Law Professor at ESCP Business School, where she teaches EU law and international economic law. She has led and co-organized an expert workshop at ESCP on corporate governance and human rights and is set to contribute, as a fellow, with research and initiatives on AI governance at ESCP’s Institute for Corporate Governance. Her background and experience comprise sustainable and responsible AI, intellectual property rights, innovation, competition policy, green finance and international trade.
Valéria is also a member of the Advisory Committee of 4iP Council, Brussels, where she provides independent guidance on the research agenda with a focus on IP and innovation for sustainable development, with a focus on AI and IP, as well as input on the organization’s structure and governance.
She further provides consultancy to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the area of AI policy, addressing legal and regulatory issues arising from the development and implementation of responsible and sustainable AI. She has previously worked as Legal Advisor and Policy Analyst at the OECD, focusing on competition policy, anti-corruption and international trade. She has earlier worked as a Senior Fellow Latin America at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York. Beforehand, she was in charge of the international department of the Brazilian competition authority CADE, where she also held the position of Chief of Staff.
She has held post-doctorates positions at the Hauser Global Law School program, at NYU; Woodrow Wilson School, at Princeton University; and the Department of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Oxford.
Valéria was previously a Bluebook trainee at the European Commission, DG Competition. She started her career as an intellectual property attorney, followed by managing attorney of a business law firm in Brazil, before taking the position of legal counsel at a biotechnology company in Taiwan.
She holds a Ph.D. in international law from the University of Sao Paulo; an LL.M. from Harvard Law School; a Masters in International Economic Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; and a Masters in international law and economics from the World Trade Institute.