Valéria Silva
Visiting Professor
Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Valéria Silva is a visiting professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School in Rio de Janeiro and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. She is also an affiliated law professor at ESCP Business School in Paris.
Her research focuses on competition policy, artificial-intelligence governance, digital regulation, intellectual property, and international economic law, with an emphasis on comparative regulatory frameworks and technology policy.
Silva previously served as an associate professor at ESCP Business School. She has worked as an artificial-intelligence policy expert and senior legal consultant with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and has participated in multistakeholder policy initiatives with the European AI Office. Earlier, she was chief of staff and head of the international department at the Brazilian competition authority, CADE, and a trainee in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition.
She also held research positions as a global research fellow at New York University School of Law and as a joint Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow at Princeton University and the University of Oxford. Earlier in her career, she worked in private practice and as legal counsel in the biotechnology sector.
Her professional distinctions include membership on the advisory committee of the 4iP Council and service as an expert contributor to international policy initiatives on artificial intelligence.
She earned a Ph.D. in international law from the University of São Paulo, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a master’s in international economic law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a master’s in international law and economics from the World Trade Institute, and a bachelor’s in law from the University of São Paulo.
