Maria Garcia Feijoo

Maria Garcia Feijoo is a Professor in the Management Department at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Deusto Business School, University of Deusto. She has established herself as a prominent scholar in service-learning, sustainable development goals, and Jesuit educational principles, with numerous publications and research projects spanning over two decades.

Her primary research interests include service-learning methodology, sustainable development in business education, marketing strategies, and the implementation of Ignatian pedagogy in business schools. Dr. Garcia Feijoo's work consistently bridges theory and practice, focusing on how business education can foster social responsibility, sustainability, and humanistic values among students.

Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on systematic reviews of service-learning impacts, sustainable development goal implementation in business schools, and the institutionalization of educational innovation. Her research has been published in journals such as International Journal of Business Environment, Frontiers in Education, PLoS ONE, and Sustainability.

• Accésit in the XVI Edition of UD-Group Santander Research Award (2020)
• Evaluation by UNIQUAL for the figure of doctor professor at a private university (2019-2025)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Latino Grameen Foundation (since 2004)

Dr. Garcia Feijoo has supervised doctoral students and served on thesis committees, including for dissertations on shopping tourism and private dependency insurance. She has participated in numerous research projects including 'Education for justice and sustainability in Spanish Jesuit Universities' (2017-2018) and 'Hands on entrepreneurship' (2014-2016). Her collaborative work with Almudena Eizaguirre Zarza and other colleagues has been particularly productive across multiple research domains.