Ramon O'Callaghan is, since 1997, Dean of TiasNimbas, the Business School of Tilburg University and Technical University of Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, and Professor of Information Systems and Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Tilburg University.
He has held the following positions:
2007-2008- Director of Deusto Business School, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
2003-2008- Senior Lecturer at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
2004-2007- Director Masters Programs (MSc) in Business Administration and Associate Dean International Affairs, 2006-2007 at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Tilburg University
2004-2007- Director of the Executive Master in Information Management at TiasNimbas
2001-2003- Director of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), a research institute of the Open University of Catalunya (UOC)
1997-2001- Associate Dean International Programs at Tias Business School, and Director of the International Executive MBA program, a joint program with Purdue University, USA
1997-2001- Sponsored professor at Tilburg University (i.e. “Fortis Group” Professor of IT Management in Financial Services)
1994-1997- Associate Professor of Information Systems and Director MBA Program at Nyenrode University
1986-1993- Assistant Professor of Control and Information Systems at IESE Business
1984-1988- Research Associate at Harvard Business School
1977-1981- Prior to his academic career, he worked at Texas Instruments as sales engineer, technical specialist and project manager.

Prof. O’Callaghan holds the degrees of:
1989- Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
1983- MBA, IESE Business School
1976- MSc and BSc in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications), UPC Technical University, Barcelona
1984-1986- His education included also courses at the Sloan School of Management, MIT
1982- Courses at l’ École Supérieure du Commerce de Paris, ESCP-EAP

His professional experience includes: executive education, research and advisory projects for European and North American organizations (e.g. Aegon, BUPA, Chubb, Danisco, Eureko, European Commission, Fortis, IBM, Independent Insurance Agents of America, ING, KPMG, Maryland Casualty, Nolan & Norton, Philips, Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, Shell, UBS). He has also taught in executive programs of: ESC Rouen (France), INSEAD (France), London Business School (UK), MIT Sloan School of Management (USA), Nile University
(Egypt), Purdue University (USA), Solvay Business School (Belgium), and Vlerick Business School (Belgium).
His research and teaching interests include: strategic management of IT, knowledge and innovation management, IT-enabled business transformation, inter-organizational systems and business networks. His work has been published in books, refereed journals, and conference proceedings, e.g. Journal of Marketing, European Journal of IS, Journal of IT, European Conference on IS, and International Conference on IS. His recent academic recognitions include the best paper award in the Knowledge Management track at the Hawaii International Conference on Information Sciences (HICSS) January 2006, and the best teaching case award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Milwaukee, Dec. 2006. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

He has supervised or examined PhD research for the following universities: Aalborg (Denmark), Antwerp (Belgium), Cape Town (South Africa), Cork (Ireland), KU Leuven (Belgium), Hohenheim (Germany), Sussex (UK), Tilburg (Netherlands), and Turku (Finland). He has participated in research programs of the European Commission: IST (2001-2007), TEDIS (1991-1992), RACE (1989-1990). He has been project coordinator of G-NIKE, a project on networked clusters, under the IST Programme (2002-2003).