Victo Silva is a postdoctoral fellow working with Professor Dani Rodrik. He works at the intersection of development policy, platform studies, and the digital political economy. His work examines how digital platforms and AI transform capitalism and reshape the developmental challenges of the Global South. One strand of his research focuses on the specificities of digital corporations, analyzing infrastructural dependence, path dependence, and the social costs of technological lock-in. In a complementary agenda, he develops the concepts of platform capture and ecosystem embeddedness to advance debates on how public platform services can be designed and governed.
Victo earned his PhD in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Campinas (Brazil) and Utrecht University (Netherlands). Before joining Harvard Kennedy School, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Interdisciplinary Hub for Digitalization and Society (iHub) at Radboud University, where he worked on multidisciplinary projects on platform governance, innovation policy, and gig work.