María Adela Balderas Cejudo (born 1969) is a Spanish university professor, consultant, conference speaker and author.
She has an international doctorate in business administration and management from the University of Deusto. She is currently a research fellow from the University of Oxford and a professor at the University of Deusto and at the Basque Culinary Center.
Early life and education
Balderas was born in Bilbao in 1969, the youngest of four children.
In 1992, Balderas earned a licentiate degree in English philology at the University of Salamanca. She later completed postgraduate degrees in business and marketing at the University of New York and the University of the Basque Country.
In 2017, she received an international doctorate in business administration and management from the University of Deusto in collaboration with the University of Oxford in 2017. She also got a MBA Executive and a master’s degree in marketing from the University of the Basque Country and a master’s in professional coaching from INESEM.
Career
Balderas is associate professor at the Department of Management Humanism in Management and Economics (HUME) at the University of Deusto and at the Deusto Business School and associate professor at the Basque Culinary Center of the University of Mondragón. She is also a research fellow at the University of Oxford, in the Institute of Population Ageing.
Balderas is also a consultant and a conference speaker in universities such as Harvard University, MIT, University of Oxford, Cambridge University, University of Deusto, the George Washington University and others and also in international events such as the World Turism Fair or the International Entrepreneurs Forum.
Books
Reinvent your Leadership: 12 keys to managing teams, ESIC Editorial, 2021.