Vito is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Norway. In Agder, he leads the Sustainability, Digitalisation and Communication focus area at the Centre for Digital Transformation (CeDiT), and is a member of the university’s Battery Coast initiative, where he coordinates the Battery Justice Research Network (BATJUST), a global network of social scientists and sustainability scientists in five continents working on justice and transparency issues related to global li-ion battery value and supply chains.

He is currently work package leader and Management Board member in the Horizon Europe project ReMeD – Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age (2023-2026).

He is a co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, a member of the editorial board of the journal Global Networks, and a member of the international editorial board of HUMA – The Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town. He was the founder and chief editor of the public engagement blog Corona Times, a HUMA project, and is currently the chief editor of the science communication blog Democracy in Action, a project of the University of Agder. He recently served as Communication Strategy Adviser for WWQA – World Water Quality Alliance, a United Nations Environment Programme partnership.

He received a BSc in Employment Relations & Human Resource Management from LSE, and an MPhil in Social Anthropological Research and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.