Miguel Sousa Lobo

Sousa Lobo is an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD. He is currently the Director of the INSEAD Middle East Campus in Abu Dhabi and is leading its development. Miguel Sousa Lobo holds MS, MA, and PhD degrees from Stanford University, USA, and had completed his undergraduate degree at Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal. After working for two years with the startup companies in Silicon Valley, and prior to joining INSEAD, he held academic appointments at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and has served as a visiting professor at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

His work has appeared in leading publications such as Operations Research, Journal of Finance, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, and Harvard Business Review. He has worked on methods for the analysis of social networks, in particular, the role of affect in intra-organisational task networks, as well as sequential decision making, with applications ranging from revenue management and optimal pricing to market microstructure and optimal trade execution.

Research Areas

Sequential Decision-Making, with applications to Revenue Management, Price Optimisation, Financial Engineering, and Market Microstructure, Models for Social Network Analysis

Teaching Areas

Uncertainty Data and Judgement, Models for Strategic Planning