We are delighted to welcome two experienced and passionate hires to our Milan and Lisbon offices: Andrea Ramponi and Ana Martins!
Andrea joins VTM as principal consultant to support the expansion of our Italian business. He brings about ten years of experience, mostly focussing on road traffic and revenue studies and due diligence linked to investments in the transport sector. His previous experience also includes work in the freight railway sector and city council transport planning.
Ana has a background in academic research and joins as senior consultant following her Ph.D. graduation in December 2023. In the last years, she was a researcher in urban mobility at the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon, and previously worked as a transport infrastructure engineer focussed on roads and on sustainable urban mobility projects.
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VTM Senior Associate Director Miguel Sena e Silva delivered a keynote presentation at the Transportes&Negócios 2025 Railway Transport Seminar, held in Oporto on May 15, 2025. The session brought together stakeholders from across the rail sector to explore opportunities, challenges, and future trends in railway transport. In this presentation, titled “Liberalization of Passenger Rail Transport: […]