Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso is Director of the Institute of International Economics (IEI-UJI) and President of INFER. She is Professor of Economics at the University of Göttingen (Germany) and Universitat Jaume I (Spain), and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham (UK).

Her research focuses on international trade, sustainable development, and economic integration, with numerous publications in leading field journals. She has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate and graduate levels at the Universities of Birmingham, Göttingen, and Jaume I, and is actively involved in building and managing international research networks. She has chaired the Social Sciences, Economics and Law cluster of the Enlight Consortium and has served on the steering committees of the Center for Global Migration Studies and the CliMigHealth Network.