Adela Balderas has a Doctorate (International Mention) in Business Administration and Management from Deusto University (Spain), is a Research Fellow from Oxford University (UK), has an MBA Executive and a Master’s Degree in Marketing from the University of the Basque Country, a Master’s in Professional Coaching from INESEM and a Degree in English Philology (long-cycle) from Salamanca University (Spain).

Adela completed executive training programmes in Professional Coaching and Leadership Coaching at New York University, Stanford University and Harvard University (USA) and studied Creativity and Innovation at St. Martin’s College, London (UK).

Adela lectures at the ESIC Business and Marketing School and at the Basque Culinary Center, where she is the coordinator of the Management Area and director at a Master’s programm.

In addition to being a visiting lecturer at various international (including Oxford University, and the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland), Adela is a consultant and conference speaker working with international and national companies in the hotel industry and the world of hospitality.

Adela is panel expert of the Sustainability in Hospitality panel.