Victor DeMiguel

Professor of Management Science and Operations; Chair, Management Science and Operations Faculty

MSc (Madrid), MSc and PhD (Stanford) Professor Victor DeMiguel’s research focuses on the design, analysis, and application of quantitative models for managerial decision making with applications in financial portfolio selection and competition modelling. He teaches MBA courses on Financial Modelling and Decision and Risk Analysis and a PhD seminar on Optimisation Theory and Applications. He also teaches the Strategic Decision Making module for the Advanced Development Programme of Executive Education. He is the recipient of the Junior Faculty Teaching Award for 2003/2004 and the Outstanding Core Course Teaching Award for 2008/2009 at London Business School. Professor DeMiguel’s papers have been published in most of the top journals of his field, including Management Science, Operations Research, and Mathematics of Operations Research. One of his most popular papers received the Best Paper Award from the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research and was published in The Review of Financial Studies. He has consulted for several companies, including ENDESA, Iberdrola, and McKinsey & Company.