Miguel Ángel
Canela
Emeritus Professor of Managerial Decision Sciences
• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona
Miguel Ángel Canela is Professor Emeritus in the in the Managerial Decision Sciences Department. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Universitat de Barcelona (1980). Before joining IESE Business School in 2009, he was a Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Analysis of that university and a part-time Professor of the Ph.D. Program at IESE. He also worked many years as a consultant at the Institut Català de Tecnologia.
His Ph.D. Dissertation and first research papers were concerned with various problems of Functional Analysis. Later, his interest switched towards interdisciplinary research, entering diverse fields, such as Management Science, Nutrition, Botany, Toxicology and Biochemistry. Nowadays, his attention is focused on the application of Data Science to various aspects of Management.