Amparo Cervera has been a Full-time Professor at the University of Valencia since 2008. She has been positively evaluated in 6 five-year teaching periods and 4 six-year research periods recognized by the Ministry of Science and Education.

Throughout the years of dedication to the University, she has carried out research, teaching, management and knowledge transfer responsibilities. In all activities, she has prioritized individual effort combined with teamwork, rigor, and public service. Her transfer activity has been developed from the absolute conviction that she is part of the social responsibility of the Universities and of her research teaching staff.

She has been director of the International Institute of Economy (2016-2022). She has participated in more than 25 research projects, 11 of them financed in public calls and 14 are contracts with companies or institutions. She has been director of the City of Valencia Chair (2013-2015) and the Sustainable Economic Model Chair of Valencia and its surroundings (2017-2019). She has led several competitive projects with the SIV research group -service, innovation, value- that she directs. Highlight ENPI European project called Newcimed: new cities in the Mediterranean Sea Basin on the sustainable development of tourist destinations. Led (2017-2019) a competitive project within the Program for the promotion of scientific research, technological development and innovation in the Valencian Community on the sustainability of Cruise Tourism.

She is the author or co-author of more than 75 articles -60 of them indexed in Web of Science-, editor of 3 books and author or co-author of 35 books or book chapters, some of them of international diffusion. She has presented more than 150 papers at conferences and lectured to diverse audiences. She is now Managing Editor of the Int. Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing -Springer-.

She has directed 13 doctoral theses, 10 of them financed by companies or institutions in a clear link with the transfer of science to economic and social reality. Three of them were awarded extraordinary doctorate prizes by their respective universities -Castellón and Valencia- and another by the Entrepreneurship Chair of the University of Salamanca as the best Spanish thesis in Entrepreneurship. She has also directed numerous master's and doctoral final projects.

She has been invited to participate as a member of commissions that have to judge the competitions for access to university teaching bodies nationally and internationally, as well as a member of doctoral thesis tribunals.

She has evaluated Research projects for ANEP (National Agency of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) as well as for the Directorate of Evaluation and Accreditation of the Andalusian Knowledge Agency (DEVA-AAC) and the European Comission.

Regarding research stays, note Victoria University (New Zealand), University of Birmingham (UK), Harvard Business School (USA), University of Beira Interior (Portugal), Paris XIII (France), Austral University (Chile). In Spain, at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Almería, Castilla-La Mancha and Barcelona.

Awards: 2008 Best Paper in Industrial Marketing Management (SSCi Journal); 2010 Awards for Excellence as Outstanding paper in Industrial Management & Data Systems (SSCi Journal). Presentation Award: 'Collaborating to innovate: effects on customer knowledge management and performance' from the Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA 2014); 'Cross-cultural perceptions of onshore guided tours: a qualitative approach base don eWOM' (GIKA 2016); 'An approach to how perceived risk acts in tourist decision-making' (XXII International Tourism and Business Congress 2019); 'Social Innovation Capacity in cities: proposal of a theoretical model from a strategic collaborative perspective' (Intl Association on Public and Nonprofit Marketing 2020); 'User interface influence on information processing: effects of presence on cognitive load and understanding 2 (AIRSI 2023 (Artificial Intelligence; Immersive Technologies, Robots, Social Media, Internet of Things).

She is currently Vicepresident of the International Association on Public and Nonprofit Marketing and an elected member of the Board of the School of Economics. Also, Member of the SDG and Gender Commission of the University of Valencia.

Professor of English Studies at the University of Valencia. He has served as Director of the Department of English and German Philology and is currently Director of the University of Valencia MA in Advanced English Studies, Director of the University of Valencia Expert in International Legal English and Nau Gran English language program coordinator. He has received 4 six-year research/transfer quality awards and 6 five-year teaching quality awards. Docentia score: 200/200.
He served as an Education Attaché at the Consulate General of Spain in Miami, as Education and Science Commissioner at the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC, and at the Embassy of Spain in Ottawa. In the Spanish foreign service, he negotiated and signed over a hundred Memoranda of Understanding and Cooperation Programs between Spain, the USA and Canada in the fields of education and science. He promoted the creation of the International Studies Charter High School in Miami, the project of bilingual ISA (International Spanish Academies), postdoctoral fellowship programs in North American universities and North American TAs (language and culture assistants) for Spanish bilingual schools.
    BA and MA in English (University of Granada). University of Granada Award for Academic Excellence, and National Award–University Studies in the Humanities; PhD cum laude (University of Bologna-Royal College of Spain) and Diploma with honours in TEFL and translation studies (University of Salford); Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Yale University; Visiting Professor at the University of Delaware, etc. He has also served as IP of research projects on mentorship development, Thomas More’s Utopia, utopia and the building of national identities in Europe, etc.). Author of more than one hundred works, published in Spain, the USA, Germany, Italy and France.
    His teaching experience includes English Medieval and Renaissance literature, utopian / dystopian literature, legal English, English for law enforcement, oral communication and varieties of English. He has taught on the language of competition law to European judges and prosecutors within the Training of National Judges Program of the EU. He has directed nine doctoral dissertations, all of which received the highest mark, and four more are in progress.
    He is a member, among others, of the advisory board of the Journals Utopian Studies  (Penn State University Press), SELIM, etc., and is a reviewer for Bloomsbury Publishing, DeGruyter, AEDEAN, Epos, etc. ; he has served as external expert advisor in several programs at The National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA) and a member of the committee of academic experts of the Ministry of Education for the National Plan for the Improvement of Foreign Language Teaching.  He has also provided services as an expert in specialized translation of legal texts to several universities through the OTRI-UVEG. Expert guest speaker in the Congressional Briefing Series, US Congress on “Official English vs. English Plus: The US Language Policy Debate,” he has also been invited as an expert by the Education Committee of the Spanish Parliament.
Some of his main publications are listed in ORCID. Recently published works are: “Entre la necesidad y la virtud: la enseñanza de las lenguas del mundo en los EE. UU.,” Madrid, Tecnos; “‘Ex nihilo nihil fit’: Dystopian satire in Poe’s Mellonta Tauta,” Frankfurt, Peter Lang; The World Studies Spanish, Ministry of Education/UV; “Our Experience of the Prince of Asturias Chair,” Washington, Georgetown UP; “Dystopia deconstructed: applying the triple helix model to a failed utopia,” Journal of Business Research; “The Shadows of the I World War in A. Huxley’s Brave New World,” Valencia, PUV; “Towards a new paradigm in the acquisition of English”, Debates para la transformación educativa, Consejo Escolar de la CAM; “Crimen atrocissimum: enjuiciamiento y castigo de delitos atroces y su representación en Los Cuentos de Canterbury de Geoffrey Chaucer,” Cuadernos del CEMyR-Universidad de La Laguna; The Language of Competition Law, with Carmen Estevan de Quesada, PUV-European Commission; “Ius ad bellum and ius in bello in Thomas More’s Utopia. Some interpretative challenges of a Twenty-first century reading,” Glossae-European Journal of Legal History; El Ocaso de Koinonia. La Distopía en la Literatura de los EE. UU., PUV, with A. Burgos Mascarell (in press).
    Among other decorations, he has been awarded the Cross of Alfonso X the Sage and the Order of Civil Merit (Commander). Honorary Professor and Medal of the Society of  International Studies (Madrid), he has received awards by the American Society of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Awards (AATSP), the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities of the USA (HACU).

Maria Orero-Blat, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Management at the University of Valencia. She holds a double international degree in International Business (Universitat de València and Hochschule Bremen). a Master's degree in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (Universitat de València) and a Master's degree in Digital Business (Universitat Politècnica de València). Her research focuses on the fields of digital transformation, HR analytics, digital skills and organizational culture. She has published her research in high-impact journals such as the Journal of Innovation & Kowledge, Review of Managerial Science or Journal of Business Research and has participated in international conferences as a speaker and member of the academic and organizing committee. She has made international stays at prestigious universities such as the University of Turin (Italy), Edinburgh Napier University (United Kingdom) and Tecnológico de Costa Rica. She works on entrepreneurship training activities and projects at an international level and on teaching innovation projects such as the creation of MOOCs. She is also a business consultant in collaboration with the spin-off Cultural Fit Solutions.

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He has a PhD in Organizational Psychology and a Master in HR and Organization Management. For more than 25 years he has held different positions in the field of HR management and direction in financial, industrial and commercial companies. He has also directed and participated in numerous HR and strategy consulting projects in companies of multiple sectors and sizes. In the teaching field he collaborates with Business Schools, Business Associations and private Universities, especially on HR and management competencies. Since 2003 he has been a professor in the department. of Social Psychology from the University of Valencia.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Valencia. Her work bridges political economy, cultural economics and tourism, with a particular interest in how music and culture contribute to territorial development. She holds a PhD in International Economics and Tourism from the University of Valencia, awarded cum laude. Paula teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on topics such as economic policy, event management and sustainable development. Her research offers original insights into music tourism and the concept of music cities, with a strong focus on real-world impact. She has led and contributed to numerous research projects exploring the role of music in shaping the tourism identity of the Valencian Region, including a flagship initiative to position Valencia as a global music city. Paula co-chairs the transnational Music Cities Network, leads the Music for Development research unit, and maintains active collaborations with the music and cultural ecosystem in Spain and beyond.