Professor in the Department of Corporate Finance at the Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia. He holds a degree in Economics and Business Studies from the same university and completed the Pedagogical Adaptation Course (CAP), equivalent to a Master’s in Secondary Education Teaching, at the Complutense University of Madrid. He earned a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Valencia, with a dissertation entitled “Asset Pricing in the Spanish and European Capital Markets”, awarded Cum Laude.

In teaching, I lecture on Finance in the Business Intelligence and Analytics degree programmes, as well as in the double degree in Business Administration and Management and Law. I also teach in the Master’s in Corporate Finance and the Master’s in Business Management (MBA). I have published over forty teaching papers, presented more than thirty conference papers, and participated in seventeen educational innovation projects. I lead the Consolidated Group for Teaching Innovation in Corporate Finance (GINFICO), and I am the author of two manuals and several book chapters —many published by Q1-ranked publishers according to SPI. I have received the Fernando Sapiña Award and the Best Teaching Innovation Paper award at the International Conference on Innovation, Documentation and Education.

In research, I lead the EFICO group (Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance and Economics: https://www.uv.es/efico) and focus on Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance and Board Gender Diversity, having also worked on Asset Pricing and the impact of the economic and industrial environment on financial decisions. I have participated as a speaker at more than forty prestigious international and national conferences, including: European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA), Annual Conference ASFAAG: Academy of Sustainable Finance, Accounting, Accountability & Governance, EMAN Europe Conference: New Perspectives on Sustainability in the European Context, International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA), International Congress of Accounting, Auditing and Finance - Sustainable Finance (ICAAF), International Scientific-Business Conference - Leadership, Innovation, Management and Economics; Integrated Politics of Research (LIMEN) and Spanish Finance Association (AEFIN), among others. I have published more than thirty articles in prestigious journals, most of which are indexed in the first quartile according to Journal Citation Reports (JCR), such as: Corporate Social Responsibility And Environmental Management (First Decile), Business Strategy and Development (Q1), Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society (Q1), Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility (Q1), International Business Review (Q1), Journal of Business Research (Q1), Small Business Economics (Q1), European Journal of Finance (Q1), Sustainability-Entrepreneurial Sustainability: New Innovative Knowledge (Q2), Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research (Q2), Quantitative Finance (Q2), y Spanish Journal of Finance & Accounting, entre otras. A su vez, he recibido siete premios de investigación otorgados por The European Academy of Management and Business Economics, International Conference on Gender Studies and Culture of Gender, Association of Young Researchers in Economics and Business Management (AJICEDE), International Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education y Ibero-American Management Control Association.

Chair of the International Congress on Sustainability in Higher Education. I am a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Business Strategy & Development (indexed in Q1 according to JCR) and a member of the scientific committee of several international finance conferences.

In addition, I have participated in research contracts with the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (IVIE) and have been part of various research projects, including several transfer projects awarded by the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI) within the framework of ‘Complementary actions to promote and strengthen innovation’. I have also collaborated on other transfer projects also awarded by the AVI in the line ‘Valorisation and transfer of research results to companies’.

[Biography, Valencian version]

Janny M. Núñez Almonte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Corporate Finance at the University of Valencia. She holds a PhD from the Doctoral Program in Accounting and Corporate Finance at the same university, where she defended her thesis titled "Board Characteristics in European Sustainable Companies: The Moderating Role of Board Gender Diversity", earning the distinction of Sobresaliente Cum Laude with International Mention.

She was awarded a predoctoral contract (ACIF22) funded by the Conselleria de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital of the Generalitat Valenciana. She also completed a predoctoral research stay at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto, supported by a grant for research stays in institutions outside the Valencian Community, also granted by the Conselleria de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital.

She holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Universidad Católica Santo Domingo and a Master’s degree in Corporate Finance from the University of Valencia. Currently, she teaches the subject Investment Theory in the Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management. She is also an active member of the Research Group on Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance, and Economy (EFICO).