Miguel Sena e Silva

Senior Associate Director
Miguel advises our clients for concession tenders, assets valuation and transactions, due diligences, litigations or debt refinancing

Miguel is a Traffic & Revenue Advisory specialist with over 20 years of international experience in transport infrastructure, covering road, rail, aviation, ports and freight logistics. As a Senior Associate Director, he advises investors, concessionaires, lenders and public authorities throughout the lifecycle of transport infrastructure projects, supporting concession bids, asset transactions, investment due diligence, claims and disputes, and debt refinancing. He has particular expertise in Traffic & Revenue forecasting, Managed Lanes, toll roads and PPP concessions, delivering investment-grade analyses that support strategic investment and financing decisions.

Miguel holds both BSc and MSc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from NOVA School of Science and Technology (NOVA FCT). He also completed postgraduate studies in Logistics (MBA jointly delivered by IST, ISCTE and FEUP) and Enterprise Data Science & Machine Learning (NOVA IMS). His academic background has been complemented by specialised executive programmes in Transport Modelling (MIT, USA; PTRC, UK) and infrastructure financing and procurement through PFI/PPP schemes (UMI, Austria).

Throughout his career, Miguel has undertaken transport demand and operational performance analyses, tariff studies, competitiveness assessments and applied research projects funded by the European Commission. He has extensive international experience, having delivered projects across Europe (France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain), North America (Mexico and the United States), Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Uruguay) and Africa (Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe). He is the author of 14 technical papers presented at industry events and international transport conferences.

Languages

Mother tongue Portuguese, Work proficiency in English and Spanish

Key experiences

Transport Demand patterns analysis and simulation

Transport system’s modeling; forecasting, economic, and risk analyses

Strategic analysis in freight and logistics sector

Development of freight transport studies in road, rail, and air modes

Programming (R, python) and Data Science

Pricing and Managed Lanes

R&D projects in transport – Horizon 2020 and 7th Framework Program

Joined VTM

Miguel joined VTM in 2001