Adriana Pérez Encinas

Adriana Pérez Encinas completed her MBA and PhD on strategies for welcoming international students, with a special focus on services provided and volunteer associations. She is lecturer and researcher on business organisations and internationalisation of higher education. Adriana was formerly head of the International Relations Office in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in Spain, and is currently an evaluator for Spain’s Erasmus+ national agency. Since 2005 she has volunteered for the Erasmus Student Network, serving as a national representative, president of the UAM chapter, project coordinator and researcher.

Adriana won the EAIE Rising Star Award in 2017. She is an EAIE trainer on international student experience, served the Expert Community Mobility Advising from 2020 to 2022 term and is currently a member of the EAIE General Council.