Begoña Vitoriano Villanueva (born 1967) is a Spanish applied mathematician and operations researcher whose work concerns the logistics of humanitarian aid and disaster relief.
[3][6] She became an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and Operational Research at the Complutense University of Madrid from 1990 to 1997.
[1][2] From 1997 to 2006 she worked as an assistant and then associate professor in the Department of Industrial Organisation and Institute for Technological Research at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid,[6][7] a private Jesuit school conflicting with her belief in public education, but with an emphasis on social justice that fit well with her research agenda.
[1] It was during this time that she changed her research focus from the management of electrical grids[7] to disaster relief.
[6] In 2021, she was elected president of the Spanish Statistics and Operations Research Society for a three-year term, beginning in 2022.