Doctor in Economics and tenured university professor of the department of  Applied Economics (Political Economy Teaching Unit). He currently directs the POLAR (Policies, Actors, and Globalization) Research Group at the University of Valencia.

His areas of scientific interest are: international economic policy; economic policy evaluation; creativity in economics teaching; and art and economics.

He has participated in several competitive research projects supported by national (Ministry) and international institutions (European Union and United Nations). He has over 100 publications among articles, book and book chapters. Also, he has carried out research stays in several universities and European research centres, such as the Centre for the Study of Industrialisation Modes (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris) or the Nucleus of Research for Political Science and International Relations of Portugal, among others.

Besides, he is a screenwriter and director of the documentaries Brass Sounds (2003), La Fábrica (The Factory, 2005) and The Banquet of (Cultural) Commons (2020).

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Luz Dary Ramírez Franco has a PhD in Rule of Law and Global Governance from the University of Salamanca and Permanent Labor Professor in the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Valencia, where she has worked since 2021. Her career combines interdisciplinary research, university teaching and academic management responsibilities.

His research work focuses on the comparative analysis of economic policies, governance and the circular economy. Since 2021 it has been part of the European Horizon 2020 project Measuring the Social Dimension of Culture (MESOC). In addition, he participates in the project GovCityAssets, dedicated to the study of the management of public real estate assets in Spanish cities, where he contributes to the analysis of political and urban governance dimensions.

He has collaborated in R&D&i projects financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, aimed at the study of economic growth, public policies and regional heterogeneity. His academic profile has been enriched with research stays at European universities -Nottingham, Liverpool and Würzburg- and Latin American universities such as EAFIT University, the University of Sonora and the University of Concepción.

At the university level, she is secretary of the Teaching Plan Coordination of the Economic Policy Unit and is part of the academic committees of the Master in Economic Policy and the degrees in Tourism and Labor Relations.

His career reflects a growing interest in expanding the comparative analysis of public policies, strengthening the connections between governance and urban development, and continuing to consolidate lines of research that integrate applied economics, institutional studies and territorial dynamics.