Dolores Ordoñez, PhD in Tourism Data Spaces in Smart Destinations (CUM LAUDE awarded) , holds a degree in Law by Deusto University, Spain and she is specialized in European Community Law and holds an Executive Master in Innovation. Specialized in innovative strategies mainly in line with SmartCities, Tourism and smart destinations and sustainability, with more than 25 years working in the public and private sector.
She is member of the Smart Destinations research group at the University of the Balearic Islands. She is president of Planetic (Spanish technological platform for ICT) and vice-president of the international cluster of Tourism, TURISTEC. She is also vice-president of the Spanish National hub of GAIA-X, and co-leader of the tourism data space working group. She has been selected as one of the 10 Smart Tourism Destinations programme of the European Union.
She is the coordinator of the Deployment of the Common European Tourism Data Space (DEPLOYTOUR) , the EU Competence Centre for data management in Smart Destinations (D3HUB) and Facilitating Skills for Tourism project (FACILITATE). She was the coordinator of the track on smart and sustainable transition in Tourism for Intelligent Cities Challenge of the European Commission
She is expert in tourism for the European Commission as member of the T4T, where she is co-lead of the digital subgroup and the unbalanced tourism horizontal task force
She is speaker in many conferences worldwide and teaches issues related to the European Union, SmarCities, SmartTourism and Sustainability.
As director of AnySolution, she is in charge of strategic innovative plans for public and private entities, EU projects implementation and the development of the data driven platform NADIA.