Dr. Francisca Álamo-Vera

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). She holds a Degree in Business Management and a PhD in Economic and Business Sciences at the ULPGC. She contributes her expertise on strategic management in the public and non-profit sector, from a research, consultancy and educational perspectives, as well as her managing skills after being in charge of academic and strategic planning areas in the University for 10 years, besides her work in the private sector. Her teaching activity is focused on the fundamentals of business management, strategic management, and touristic destination competitiveness, as well as on student competences, mobility programmes and gender. She has researched on strategic management -especially in higher education institutions-, international strategy, corporate governance, resistance to organisational change, and territorial competitiveness in different industries, one of them being tourism. As a result, she has both published academic papers and directed doctoral theses. This spread research activity allows her to efficiently manage the elaboration of theoretical frameworks, the statistical analysis, and the interpretation of results. As a person in charge of academic areas, among others, she was de first Vice-Dean of International Relations of the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism of the ULPGC, opening the way to the international mobility of students.