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Mónica Cortiñas Ugalde (Pamplona, 1974) is a professor of Marketing and Market Research at Public University of Navarre (UPNA) and is affiliated as a researcher with the INARBE Institute. She holds a degree and a doctoral degree in Business Administration and Management from UPNA and has held the position of Head of the Strategic Planning Area at this institution since 2015.

Her research lines include digital marketing, consumer behaviour, artificial intelligence applied to marketing, and human-computer interaction. She is the author of more than 30 papers in internationally recognised scientific journals and has participated in 13 competitive research projects, leading two projects under the State Plan. She has supervised three doctoral theses and is actively involved in international research networks. Between 2015 and 2021, she was a member of the Board of the Spanish Association of Academic and Professional Marketing. Her research activity has been recognised with three six-year research periods (sexenios - promotions acquired after 6 years of research). 

In her teaching role, she teaches courses at the Faculty of Economics and Business, and has been responsible for subjects such as Commercial Management I, Information Systems, and Market Research. Regarding academic management, in addition to her role as Head of the Strategic Planning Area since 2015, she has held other roles, including as a member of the Academic Commission of the Doctoral Programme in Economics, Business and Law (2020-2024), Quality Manager for the Master’s in Business Administration and Management, and Head of the Marketing and Market Research Knowledge Area. She is also a member of the Events Committee, the Managing Committee of the Plan for Equality, and the University Senate since 2008.
 

Isabel Abínzano Guillén
Tel: 948 16 9895
E-mail: direccion.areaplanificacion@unavarra.es

Isabel Abínzano Guillén (Tafalla, 1976) is an Associate Professor (tenured) in the Financial Economics and Accounting area at Public University of Navarre (UPNA), where she also leads the Research Group on Financial Markets and is affiliated with the INARBE Institute. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, a Master's degree in Economics and Finance, and a PhD in Business Administration from University of Navarre. She completed a postdoctoral research stay at the University of Toronto with a grant from the ICO Foundation. Since 2019, she has also served as Deputy Head of the Department of Business Management.

Her current research focuses on credit risk measurement and its application to various business issues such as climate change, gender diversity on corporate boards, the readability of annual reports, and the quality of information and its impact on analysts’ recommendations. She has also worked on other topics including derivatives valuation, financial restructuring, profitability determinants, investment funds, pension plans, and betting markets.

She has published 32 articles in indexed international journals and participated in 15 competitive research projects, serving as principal researcher on two of them.  She is a member of the editorial board of the Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting and serves as a reviewer for prestigious academic journals. She has co-supervised one doctoral thesis on credit risk and is currently co-supervising another. She has also contributed to knowledge transfer through nine contracts—mainly technical reports—six of which focused on derivatives valuation and three on credit risk measurement and financing costs. Her research career has been recognised with three research evaluation periods (sexenios) and one knowledge transfer evaluation period.

She has taught at all university levels (undergraduate, master's, and doctoral), mainly in finance-related courses. She has been in charge of several subjects and is currently responsible for one of them. In addition, she has participated in various teaching innovation projects, with results presented in publications and academic conferences.

Paula Anzola Román
Tel: 948 16 6257
E-mail: area.emprendimiento@unavarra.es

Paula Anzola Román (Bilbao, 1983) graduated in Business Administration and Management from the Deusto Business School (2006) and holds a PhD in Economics, Business Science and Law from the Public University of Navarre (2018).

She teaches management. She currently belongs to the Department of Business Management at the UPNA, where she worked as an Associate Professor for two academic years before being named Assistant Professor with PhD in September 2019. She has taught in Spanish, Basque and English, mainly for the Bachelor’s degree in Management and Business Administration. She has supervised several final-year projects for this qualification.

After three years as a tax adviser in the private sector, she began her research career at the UPNA through various research contracts with the Department of Business Management. After that, she completed her doctoral thesis and conducted research in the field of innovation management, with a particular emphasis on matters related to open innovation and organisational innovation. She has taken part in several Spanish and European research projects, and has published papers in indexed journals, such as the Journal of Business Research and the Journal of Knowledge Management.

More recently, her work has focused on developing and studying entrepreneurship, particularly worthy of note being her participation in a study on UPNA research spin-offs and the coordination of programmes for young entrepreneurs. The management position she currently holds, Head of Entrepreneurship, was created within this context.