Victoria Galan-Muros

Dr. Victoria Galan-Muros is a leading consultant and policy advisor who has worked in the interface between universities, business and policy makers for 15+ years in 50+ countries and co-authored 120+ technical and consulting reports for the European Commission, OECD, UNESCO, OEI, DAAD, governments and universities worldwide.

Victoria is also a recognised research leader in higher education policy and management, university-business cooperation, future universities, innovative and entrepreneurial universities, as well as higher education and development, with 60+ publications. She has been invited to lecture at 13 universities in four continents, to deliver professional workshops in 25 countries and speak in 180 events internationally.

Previously a policy analyst at the OECD (Paris), a senior associate consultant at Technopolis Group UK (London), the research director at the Global Institute on Innovation Districts (New York - in partnership with The Brookings Institution) and the policy affairs director at the University-Industry Innovation Network, UIIN (Amsterdam); Victoria co-founded and led Innovative Futures Institute, a think-tank and do-tank that advises and actively supports universities, businesses and governments in their innovation efforts. Currently, Victoria is the Chief of Research and Analysis at the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education, leading evidence-based advise for governments and higher education institutions in the 193 Member States.  

Victoria has two 4-year undergraduate degrees at University of Granada in Business Management and also in Market Research, she holds a MSc in Social Research Methods at London School of Economics and a PhD in University-Business Cooperation at VU Amsterdam.