Luiz Roberto Bezerra
Master's in Electrical Engineering from COPPE/UFRJ. Postgraduate from Universidade Cândido Mendes (MBA in Business Management) and from IBMEC/RJ (Executive MBA in Finance). Holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from PUC/RJ, and also has an incomplete Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from PUC/RJ (coursework completed and passed the qualifying exam).
Advisor to the Director of FGV Energia and Electric Power Sector Research Coordinator at FGV Energia since February 2014. Standing member of the Panel of Arbitrators at the FGV Chamber of Conciliation and Arbitration (since 2018). Coordinator of applied research (R&D) projects, focusing on complementary renewable energy, distributed energy resources, smart grids, energy efficiency, sustainability, local productive arrangements, circular economy, and sharing economy. Specialist in power quality, electrical system planning, and equipment load capacity, particularly transformers. Served as an Independent Member of the Board of Directors of CHESF (2019 to 2022), as Institutional Relations Coordinator at FGV Energia, as Coordinator of FGV's MBA program in the Electric Power Sector, and supervised final course projects for FGV's MBA in the Electric Power Sector.
He worked for 35 years at FURNAS Centrais Elétricas (1979 to 2013), the last 5 years (2008 to 2013) as Chief of Staff to the Presidency, having served as a member appointed by FURNAS on the Board of Directors of Santo Antônio Energia (2011 to 2015) and on the Deliberative Council of Fundação Real Grandeza, the pension fund for FURNAS and Eletronuclear employees (2009 to 2015). At Furnas, he also worked as a manager in the commercialization area and took part in implementing strategic planning and optimizing processes to increase profitability, reduce costs, streamline administration, and improve productivity. He represented FURNAS at ABRATE from 1999 to 2008, where he served as Coordinator of the Regulation and Contracts Group.