Luiz Moutinho completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1982 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, as well as visiting Professorship positions in Taiwan, Lithuania, Slovenia, Portugal, New Zealand and Brazil. He has been a Director of Doctoral programme for seventeen years, (i.e. for the Confederation of Scottish Business Schools, Cardiff Business School and School of Business and Management, University of Glasgow). Luiz Moutinho has been a full Professor of Marketing since 1989 and was appointed in 1996 to the Foundation Chair of Marketing at the University of Glasgow. He has published nineteen books and has published extensively in academic journals both in the UK and the USA, e.g. Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, etc.

Current research interests include mathematical and computer modelling in marketing, consumer behaviour, and marketing of services. He is the Editor of the Journal of Modelling in Marketing and Management (JM2).