Biography: Competition Economics

Dr Oliveira has experience both in the private and public sectors and in business and academia. He and his two partners, Pedro Scazufca and Fernando Marcato, lead a network of talented economists, lawyers and engineers at GO Associados focusing on competition, policy, regulation, public-private partnerships and environmental issues. Excellence and multidisciplinary background, permit GO Associados to design the best competition strategies for its clients.

Dr Oliveira received his PhD in Economics from the University of California (Berkeley) and is a professor of Economics at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (São Paulo). His previous positions include being the CEO of Sabesp (2007-10), the fifth largest water company in the world; visiting scholar at Columbia University (2006); deputy secretary for Economic Policy (1993-95), secretary for Economic Surveillance (1995) of the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, and president of CADE, the Brazilian federal antitrust authority (1996-2000).

He sat on the working group that prepared the current Brazilian competition law and has testified in Congress about reform of the present system. Dr Oliveira has worked with international organisations such as the World Bank and WTO in several countries. His works include five books; many papers and articles published by Brazilian and international journals; preparation of submissions and building cases; expert witness to CADE and to electricity, telecommunications, sanitation and natural gas regulators, among others; arbitrator in private disputes and testimony on competition issues to the New York Bankruptcy Court.