Silas is a Researcher and Policy Analyst with Canadians for Tax Fairness, an advocacy organization focused on progressive tax issues in Canada.

He has worked with a range of academic and non-profit organizations that aim to better understand and raise awareness about socioeconomic inequalities, including the World Inequality Lab, the UBC Housing Research Collaborative, Oxfam Canada and UBI Works.

A member of the Progressive Economics Forum, he holds master’s degrees in economics from the University of British Columbia and the Paris School of Economics.

Silas is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in political economy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, where he is aiming to understand how orthodox economic ideas became dominant.