6th Edition of Neurology World Conference 2026

Biography

Professor Luiz Moutinho (BA, MA, PhD, MAE, FCIM) is the Visiting Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Arts, Business and Applied Social Science, Univ. of Suffolk, Ipswich, England, UK.

In 2020, he was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2017, he received a degree of Prof. Honoris Causa from the Univ. of Tourism and Management Skopje, North Macedonia.  In 2025 was rated among the top 85 in 100  best scientists in Business and Management by Research.com as well as Top 0.05% of Scholars in the Areas of Marketing and Management by ScholarGPS, in 2026 he was ranked 630 Best Scientists for 2026 by Research.com,  Top 100 Best Scientists in Business and Management in the UK by Research.com, Top 0.02% Scientists in the World, Stanford University- Elsevier Index.

During 2015 - 2017 he was a professor of BioMarketing and Futures Research at the DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland. This was the first Chair in the world on both domains - BioMarketing and Futures Research. Previously, and for 20 years, he had been appointed as the Foundation Chair of Marketing at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland.

He completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1982. He has been a Full Professor for 36  years and held posts at Cardiff Business School, University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA, Northern Arizona University, USA and California State University, USA. He has held Visiting Professorship positions at numerous universities in China, Lithuania, Austria, New Zealand, Denmark, Slovenia, Portugal, Hungary, Taiwan, Brazil, Colombia, Fiji and Cyprus.

Between 1987 and 1989 he was the director of the Doctoral Programmes at the Confederation of Scottish Business Schools and at the Cardiff Business School between 1993 and 1996. He was director of the Doctoral Programme in Management at the University of Glasgow between 1996 and 2004.

Professor Moutinho is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modelling in Management (JM2) and Co-editor-in-Chief of the Innovative Marketing Journal. He has another 4 associate editorships as well as being in the editorial boards of another 47 international academic journals.

His areas of research interest encompass marketing and management futurecast, artificial intelligence, biometrics and neuroscience in marketing, futures research algorithmic self, EmoWear - a wearable tech device that detects human emotions, evolutionary algorithms, human-computer interaction, the use of artificial neural networks in marketing, modelling processes of consumer behaviour and tourism futurecast.

He has developed a number of conceptual models over the years in areas such as tourism destination decision processes, automated banking, supermarket patronage, among other areas. The testing of these research models has been based on the application of many different statistical, computer and mathematical modelling techniques ranging from multidimensional scaling, multinomial logit generalised linear models (GLMs) and linear structural relations to neural networks, ordered probit, simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms and fuzzy logic.

 Prof. Moutinho has given keynote speeches, lectures, seminars, talks, etc. in  64 countries worldwide.Prof. Moutinho has 41 books published, over 163 articles published in refereed academic journals.