Biography: Competition Economics

Arthur Barrionuevo is a senior consultant for Microanalysis. He also serves as a professor of Economics at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP) business school.

He served as chairman of the board of FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, 1999), a government financial institution dedicated to financing the R&D of Brazilian companies; as secretary of technological development at the Ministry of Science and Technology (1999), he was responsible for public policies to support business innovation; and he has also served as counsel for CADE (Administrative Council of Economic Defense, 1997–99), the Brazilian antitrust authority, under President Fernando H Cardoso.

He has acted as a consultant for corporations and law firms in Brazil in competition policies and regulatory issues. He also worked as consultant for ANATEL, the Brazilian telecommunications agency, on infrastructure access and calculation of WACC in telecommunications sector.

Professor Barrionuevo has published many papers in specialised economy and law journals and has several articles published in newspapers on issues such as competition and convergence of telecommunication services in Brazil and competition policies. He is a frequent lecturer on antitrust and regulation policies in Brazil.