Professor Valerio De Stefano, PhD, is a tenured professor and Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada. He was previously the BOF-ZAP Research Professor of Labour Law at the Institute for Labour Law and the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven in Belgium. He obtained his master's and doctoral (2011) degrees in law from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher and part-time associate at an international law firm. From 2014 to 2017, he served as an officer of the International Labour Office, in Geneva. In addition, he has held visiting academic positions at University College London, Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge, and the University of Melbourne.Professor De Stefano's research focuses on the legal issues surrounding platform work, in-work poverty, automation, and artificial intelligence. He has published numerous articles in major academic journals and has acted as a consultant for international organizations, national governments, the European Parliament and the EU commission. He is a member of the OECD's Network of Experts on AI and has delivered lectures and seminars on the labour protection of new forms of work at various international forums. In 2022, he co-authored the monograph "Your Boss Is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour" with Professor Antonio Aloisi. His research is frequently cited by courts, parliamentary bills, policy reports, and media worldwide.