Gilberto Montibeller is Professor of Management Science and the Director of Executive Education in the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University (UK) and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southern California (USA). He joined Loughborough University in 2015 from the Management Science Group in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics, to lead Loughborough’s Management Science and Operations Group, one of the strongest in Britain.
Prof Montibeller is an expert in strategic decision and risk analysis, with a focus on the optimization of value in decisions under uncertainty and with conflicting objectives. His main research interests are behavioural decision analysis and policy analytics. Prof Montibeller is Associated Editor of the INFORMS Decision Analysis journal. He has published widely in decision science journals. The quality of his research has been recognised with best publication awards granted by the Society of Risk Analysis, INFORMS, and the International Society on Multi-Criteria Decision Making. He has held visiting scholar positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria), CNRS Lamsade (Paris Dauphine University, France), the London School of Economics (UK), and IE Business School (Spain).
Professor Montibeller has also ample experience in executive education, both face-to-face and online, having taught at the LSE Executive School, LSE Corporate Training, Hertie School (Germany), Warwick Business School (UK), IE Business School (Spain), and University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). As a management scientist, he has more than twenty years of experience in conducting decision analytic projects. Client organisations include the World Health Organisation (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), USAID, Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), UK Department of Agriculture (DEFRA), UK National Audit Office, and UK Department of Health. These translation research projects helped client organizations to maximize the value performance of their choices and optimize the performance of their decision processes. Two of his focal areas of applications are global health security and managing health and terrorist threats. His expert opinion on those topics has been sought by influential media outlets, such as the Financial Times, The Telegraph, and the NewStatesman.