Victor Amadeo
Bañuls Silvera

Dr. Victor A. Bañuls is a Full Professor of Management Information Systems at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville (Spain). He also has served as a visiting research scholar at the UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), CIEM (Kristiansand, Norway), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJ, U.S.A.), and Tilburg University (Tilburg, The Netherlands). Before his current position, Dr. Bañuls worked as a financial, quality, and information systems manager. He has participated in several national and international research projects. His research has been published in journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technovation, EAAI, IEEE SMC, and Futures (among others), being the editor of two books. Recently he has been guest editor of the journals TFSC, Upgrade, and Novica. He teaches various Information Systems and Information Technology Management courses to undergraduate and graduate students. He is the chair of several postgraduate programs at the Pablo de Olavide University, including an Executive Master program on Integrated Management Systems and an Executive Security Management program. His present research efforts are focused on foresight and emergency management, being also interested in e-learning, management science, and information systems assessment. He is the confounder and Research Director of the safety engineering companies MSIG and Mission Track. He has been co-chair of the track “Foresight, Planning and Risk Analysis in Emergency Management” at the ISCRAM conference since 2010. He has been a member of the board of ISCRAM and chair of the Publications and Academic Standards Committee from 2014 to 2020. Specialties: Information Systems, Integrated Management Systems, Emergency Management, ERP, Foresight.