Valerio De Stefano is Associate Professor with tenure at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. He was previously BOF-ZAP Professor of Labour Law at the Institute for Labour Law, University of Leuven, Belgium. Valerio's research focuses on artificial intelligence, people analytics and the workplace, and platform-based work in the gig-economy. He holds a PhD in Law of Business and Commerce from Bocconi University, Milan, Italy (2011).

From 2014 to 2017, Valerio was an officer of the International Labour Organization. He has been the principal investigator of several major grants about labour and technology, including from the FWO - Research Foundation Flanders and Horizon2020. In 2020, Valerio was awarded the Service to Society Prize by KU Leuven for his public engagement based on his research. He has been a consultant for the ILO, several EU institutions, and national governments. He is co-editor of the Dispatches section of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal and a member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI (ONE AI).