Dr.Valéria Guimarães de Lima e Silva, a Brazilian national, is an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Her current research focuses on International Economic Law and Policy analysis, more specifically on the intersection between International Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, Competition Law and Health. She is currently researching the politics and law of border measures for the protection of Intellectual Property Rights. During the first year of the Fellowship at the University of Oxford, Valéria researched abusive (‘sham’) litigation in the pharmaceutical sector. Valéria’s fields of expertise are International Trade Law, Competition Law, Intellectual Property Rights and Public International Law.

Before joining the GLF Programme, Valéria worked for the Brazilian Competition Authority (CADE) as Chief of Staff and International Adviser, where she assisted the Presidency in various matters and was in charge of the International Department of the authority. She previously served as a Blue Book trainee in the European Commission’s DG Competition in Brussels. She has also worked in Taipei as a legal counsel for a Taiwanese biotechnology company, and as a lawyer and team manager for a branch of a business law firm in Rio de Janeiro. She started her career as a lawyer in the second largest Intellectual Property Law firm of Latin America.

Valéria received her PhD in International Law from the University of Sao Paulo in 2004. Her PhD thesis undertook a comparative analysis of extraterritorial jurisdiction in competition laws of the US, European Union and Brazil, and assessed the viability of regulating competition law internationally in the WTO. Her thesis was unanimously recommended for publication by the Board of Examiners and was published as a book in Brazil in 2006. She also holds a Masters in International Trade Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute, in Berne, Switzerland, where she has graduated with a Summa cum Laude degree. Valéria is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish and has a working knowledge of French and German, as well as a basic knowledge of Italian.

Valéria can be contacted at: valeria_glsilva[AT]yahoo.com.br