Amparo Navarro Faure, president of the University of Alicante since 2020, is a Professor of Financial and Tax Law at the UA. She has been Vice President for Research and Knowledge Transfer and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the same University. She is currently chair of the Managers’ Sectoral Committee of CRUE (Spanish University Presidents Council) and a member of its Governing Board. She is a member of the Permanent Commission of the Council of Universities and President of the Social and Legal Sciences Commission. She has been a member of the CRUE R&D+i sectorial executive and Chair of the Spanish Universities Research Management Units Network. She has been Chair of the Financial and Tax Law Lecturers Network since 2017 and Vice President since 2019.
She is a graduated in Law from the University of Alicante with an outstanding qualification and Special Award, and she holds a PhD in Law from the same University, with a Cum Laude, the highest level of distinction achieved in Spanish universities.
Professor Navarro Faure has made innovative and high-quality contributions in the field of Tax Law, Budget Law and Public Expenditure, Consumer Credit Law and Financial Law. She is the author of several monographs in these fields, some of them with pioneering research topics, published by leading publishers: "Aspectos tributarios de la economía sumergida" (1986); "Aspectos jurídico financieros del déficit público" (1993), "El domicilio tributario" (1994), "El Derecho tributario ante el nuevo Derecho contable" (2007) El régimen jurídico financiero de las subvenciones públicas (2010). She is co-author of the manuals "Lecciones de Hacienda Pública", "Introducción al Derecho Tributario" and "El Sistema Impositivo" and "Manual de Derecho presupuestario y de los gastos públicos". She is the coordinator of the “Manual de Derecho Financiero y Tributario. Parte General” ed. Tirant Lo Blanch. She is the author of more than one hundred publications in prestigious journals in her speciality, both in Spain and abroad.
Dr. Navarro Faure has been principal investigator of eleven research projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Science, by the Valencia Government, and by the European Commission, and has participated in up to nine other projects within the Financial and Tax Law Research Group of the UA and the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the principal investigator of three Prometeo projects for groups of research excellence of the Valencia Government. She has also participated in research positions with the Institute of Fiscal Studies and the Steuerrecht Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien in Austria. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Fiscal and Public Finance Policy Studies at the University Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne. She has also been a keynote speaker and has submitted papers at the main conferences in the field: the IFA (International Fiscal Association), EATP (European Association of Tax Law Professors) and the ILADT (Latin American Institute of Tax Law), of which she is a member. She is also a member of the Spanish Association of Financial Law and of the Woman IFA Network