Adel Guitouni

Dr. Adel Guitouni is an award-winning associate professor of management sciences, operations research and decision support systems at the Gustavson School of Business (University of Victoria, Canada). His PhD and master’s students benefit from his multidisciplinary approach to teaching and professional activities, which includes his work with the Canadian government, where he directed large scientific teams involved in major events and strategic initiatives such as the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and the G8/G20 summits, as well as a variety of projects with the Canadian Forces.

Since 2011, on behalf of the business school, he has been actively engaged in educational activities supporting democratic transition and socio-economic development in the MENA region (notably Tunisia and Libya), from coaching senior government officials to securing grant funding to develop the countries’ leadership capacity. In 2014, in partnership with Tunisian higher education institutions, he established a not-for-profit non-governmental organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and innovation.

Adel has published numerous refereed papers and book chapters and has received several multi-million-dollar research grants. His research contributions span multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA), supply chain management, information systems, resource management and cloud computing. His research interests include the automation of planning and scheduling, net-enabled dynamic resource management, supply chain management, classification and machine learning, multiple criteria decision analysis, multi-objective optimization, collaborative decision-making and decision support systems.

Through his research, his goal is to help improve decision-making at the individual and corporate level. Through his entrepreneurship and leadership work, he hopes to empower young people and leaders by giving them the tools to change their world.

Before joining the Gustavson School of Business full-time in 2011, he was one of its adjunct professors. He has also held positions with the Canadian government and taught at Université Laval, Université de Sherbrooke and Concordia University. He has supervised numerous graduate students and six postdoctoral fellows, and is a member of international policy groups and think tanks.