Associate Professor (Accounting and Finance) at the Faculty of Business Studies, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain). PhD in Economics and Business (University of Murcia). Master (MSc) in Banking and Finance and Master (MSc) in Auditing at the ENAE Business School (Spain). BA (Hons) Business in Europe at the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). Registered Auditor (ROAC). At present, Vice-Chancellor for strategic planning and economy at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, former Dean of the Faculty of Business Studies and Deputy Head of the Mare Nostrum Family Business Research Centre. Fields of research: Financial Management, Auditing, Management of SMEs, Family Business and Entrepreneurship. Membership of professional and academic societies IFERA, EAA, ASEPUC, AECA, FAEDPYME, ICJC, ROAC. Visiting scholar under the Erasmus programme in the University of Warsaw (Poland), Cracow University of Economics (Poland), Chambery Graduate School Of Business (France) and Unversidade Do Algarve (Portugal) and Pan European universities, such as Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (México), Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (México), Universidad de Coahuila (Saltillo, México), Charotar University of Science & Tecnology (India), Patel Institute of Management and Computer Studies (India), Gujarat National Law University (India) y Thakur Institute of Management Studies & Research (India).