Adiel Teixeira de Almeida is Full Professor of management engineering at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and founding coordinator of the CDSID (Center for Decision Systems and Information Development). Before his current position, he worked in business organizations as engineer and manager, including project manager and program manager of R&D projects. He holds a PhD in management engineering from The University of Birmingham, UK. He has a research fellowship Grantee for Productivity in Research from the Brazilian NRC (CNPq), since 1996. His main interests are in decision-making related to multiple objectives and group decision problems, which includes methodological issues and applications. He has received in 2017 the INFORMS GDN Section Award and the Georg Cantor Award from the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, in 2022. He is Fellow of IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies), of SOBRAPO (Brazilian Operational Research Society) and of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA). He has also received the Award for best Journal (EJOR) paper in Theory and Methodology by EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies), in 2019, for the first paper related to FITradeoff method, which has been originated by him and his co-workers. He serves on the editorial board of scholarly journals, such as: Group Decision and Negotiation (Management Science Departmental co-editor), Information Sciences, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics and EURO Journal on Decision Processes and International Journal of Decision Support System Technology. He authored or co-author over 175 scientific papers in reviewed journals related to a variety of topics such as: Operational Research, Group Decision, Decision Systems, MCDM/A (Multicriteria Decision Making and Aid), Risk, Reliability, Maintenance, Safety, Quality, and Water Resources. He has been working as a consultant and with R&D projects for private and public organizations, where he has applied decision models in many contexts, such as: risk analysis, reliability and maintenance, project portfolio, R&D project portfolio, project management, strategic modeling, outsourcing, information systems, supply chain, and water management. Also, he has been an active member of the main societies related to Operational Research, Group Decision, MCDM/A, Risk, Reliability and Maintenance topics. He has served for over ten years on the board of the SOBRAPO. He has served on the Executive Committee of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (2015-2019). He served for ten years the INFORMS GDN Section, as Council member in several roles and as its President (03/2021-02/2023). He has served the INFORMS MCDM Section as Council member (2017-2019), as Vice-President (2022-2023) and as President (2024-2025).