José Vila is a mathematician and PhD in Economics. He is a specialist in quantitative methods associated with decision making, and strategy and economic behavior (Northwestern University). He is the author of numerous national and international publications and conferences.

José Vila is Scientific Advisor at DevStat. Professor and Director of the DevStat-UV Chair on Quantitative Decisionmaking at the University of Valencia. Researcher at the Socioeconomic Behavior Research Center (ERI-CES) and the Intelligent Data Analysis Laboratory (IDAL).