Ph.D. Maria Sard Bauzà (Palma, 1975) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). She holds a degree in Economics from UIB (1993-1997), a Master's in Foreign Trade from the Complutense University of Madrid (1997-1998), and a PhD in Economics and Business from UIB (2006).

She is currently the principal investigator of the Economic Analysis and Modeling Research Group (GAME), a member of the Critical Geographies of Urbanization, Sustainability, and Touristification Research Group (CRIGUST), and of the Laboratory for Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation (LEIS). Her research focuses on topics related to tourism economics and labour economics. She has published in top-tier journals (https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=Fv-dL68AAAAJ&hl=es). She has presented her research at national and international conferences and participated in funded research projects at the regional and national levels.

Her research has also been awarded with the Fitur-Jorge Vila Fradera prize in 2002 for the co-authored book "The Post-Stagnation Phase of a Mature Tourist Destination: Dressing up to Screen the Same Blowsy Tart?" and the "Best Article Award for the Most Outstanding Research Article Published in the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research" in 2020. She has been positively evaluated in two research six-year terms (the most recent covering the period 2013–2018) by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI).

Additionally, she has contributed to scientific management by serving as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Tourism Analysis, as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research and the Journal of Tourism & Hospitality, and as a guest editor for a special issue of the journal Tourism Analysis. She has also reviewed articles for national and international journals and served on the scientific and organizing committees for various international conferences.

Her teaching experience, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, is extensive and covers areas such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, and tourism economics. She currently teaches Industrial Economics in the Business Administration and Management Degree program. Her teaching evaluations have been favourable or highly favourable, and she has five recognized teaching periods. Regarding teaching mobility, she completed a teaching stay through the Erasmus program at the North Copenhagen Business Academy. She is also a mobility tutor for students from this program across four universities. Additionally, she has been the principal investigator in various teaching innovation projects and has participated as a team member in others. She has an extensive record of participation in teaching conferences and is a member of the scientific committee of the Jornadas de Docencia en Economía.

In terms of university management, she has co-directed the Master's in Tourism Management and Planning (2014-2019) and coordinated the courses, master's theses, and business internships (2014–2019). She has also coordinated the courses Tourism Policy (2004-2006) and Research Foundations (2006-2008) for the Master's in Tourism Economics and the Environment. Currently, she coordinates the Industrial Economics course, which is taught in three-degree programs.

She is a member of the Spanish Association of Labour Economics (AEET), part of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), and the technical director of the GEM Balearics group. She has served as a non-governmental advisor to the National Commission on Markets and Competition (2020-2023) and as an alternate member designated by the government to the Economic and Social Council (CES) of the Balearic Islands (2019-2024).