Arthur Tavares

He works as a consultant in economic modeling and financial structuring on projects. 

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Academic Background

• MSc in Economics — IBMEC. Research focused on selecting stochastic processes for real-options based project valuation.

• BSc in Economics, Magna Cum Laude — IBMEC.

 

Professional Experience

• Founder of Merlin Capital, leading consulting projects to strengthen companies’ financial and strategic management, including investment analysis, contractual structuring, risk modeling, and M&A support.

• Participation in multiple R&D and regulatory consulting projects in partnership with ANEEL and sector companies.

• Track record in economic–financial sustainability modeling for electricity distribution utilities, tariff (rate) forecasting, and scenario simulations involving emerging technologies such as distributed generation and electric vehicles.

• Development of risk simulators for the power market and economic feasibility studies for charging infrastructure and operational fleet electrification.

• Author of articles published in journals such as The European Journal of Finance and Energy Policy.

• 2022–2024: Chief Financial Officer at Infinitas Travel, leading the company’s turnaround by restructuring financial controls, redesigning processes, and driving automation, performance analytics, and new business initiatives.

• 2019–2023: Partner at Executamos Consultoria, delivering investment appraisal projects; building accounting and technical databases for Latin American distribution utilities in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); and developing AI solutions for extracting statistics from video and media data.

• Began career at Simplific Pavarini, working in investment-fund management, allocation analysis, and the development of financial-control tools.