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Associate Professor María García Hernández

María García-Hernández (PhD) is Associate Professor of Human Geography at Complutense University. She has a PhD in Geography, a degree in Geography and a degree in Documentation (UC3M). She is the-director of the research group “Tourism, Heritage and Development” (www.ucm.es/geoturis) and the Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Tourism of the Complutense University (tourism and heritage research line). Her researches are focused on: cultural heritage and tourism relationships, cultural tourism, tourism carrying capacity indicators, management of visitor flows in heritage attractions and destinations, tourism observatories, tourism and urban planning and management, urban tourism, and heritage destinations typologies. She has participated in several research projects of competitive calls (EU; National Plan of I+D+i, Regional Governement Madrid, AECID) She has also participated in many research contracts from: Andalusian Heritage Institute, Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, Ávila, Segovia, Salamanca and Aranjuez City Councils, Group of Spanish Heritage Cities, Alhambra and Generalife Board, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Carmona Necropolis Archaeological Site, Madinat Al-Zahra Archaeological Site, TURESPAÑA, etc.

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Associate Professor Juan Ángel Martín Fernández

Juan Ángel Martín Fernández, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Department of Applied Economics, Public Economics and Political Economy (UCM). PhD since 2002, he has conducted pre and postdoctoral research stays at the Universities of Manchester and Toulouse. As a researcher, he has more than fifteen years of experience in the field of Economics of Cultural Heritage, being Principal Researcher and member of several teams. His work focuses on estimating the economic and social impacts of activities related to cultural heritage, the monetary valuation of the preservation efforts and its returns in terms of economic activity and social wellbeing. Currently he teaches subjects of Cultural Economics and Economic Impact of Cultural Heritage in the UCM-UPM Master Patrimonio Cultural en el Siglo XXI: Gestión e Investigación. Member of the UCM research group Policy design: transfer and social innovation.

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Professor Ana Yánez Vega

Ana Yáñez is a PhD in Law and Professor of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Political and Social Science of the UCM since 2000. She has more than twenty years of experience in the management of historical goods, having directed the Fundación de Casas Históricas y Singulares [Foundation of Historic and Singular Houses] and others institutions. She is a specialist in Cultural Heritage Law and museums and in the legal regime of non-profit entities. Much of her research and interest focuses on the fight against plunder and illicit trafficking of archaeological assets, in the valuation of damages caused to heritage archaeological and procedural activities to prove illegal activities against these goods, having published numerous books and articles on these topics. She has participated and participates in national and international research projects and she gave lectures and teaching in numerous Spanish and foreign centers. Currently she teaches in the UCM-UPM Master Patrimonio Cultural en el Siglo XXI: Gestión e Investigación and she is a member of the UCM research group ‘Policy design: transfer and social innovation’. Since 2018 is the Secretary-General of ICOMOS Spain and Nemesis, Asociación para la investigación y defensa del Patrimonio Cultural contra el expolio y el tráfico ilícito [Association for the Investigation and defense of Cultural Heritage against plunder and illegal traffic].