Olga Blasco Blasco earned her PhD in Economic and Business Sciences from the University of Valencia in 2001. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Valencia in the area of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business, within the Department of Applied Economics. Since December 9, 2024, she has served as Scientific Advisor to the Government of Spain at the Ministry of Culture.
She is an expert in quantitative methods for decision-making and in the construction, evaluation, and monitoring of economic and social indicators. She has been a member of the research team Quantitative Methods for the Measurement of Culture (MC2) since 2008 and served as Director of this research group in 2023 and 2024, actively contributing to the development of research projects and contracts for major cultural organizations and institutions, including the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, the Organization of Ibero-American States, the Cervantes Institute, the Ministry of Culture, and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, among others.
Since 2016, she has collaborated with researchers in the field of Communication at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, and has participated in four R&D (I+D+i) projects focused on indicators of governance, funding, accountability, innovation, quality, and public service in European public broadcasting organizations, with applicability to the Spanish context.
She has delivered invited lectures at several Spanish universities and at Latin American universities, notably at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico; multiple campuses of the National Experimental Polytechnic University of Venezuela; the Private Technical University of Loja (Ecuador); and the University of Antioquia, University of Medellín, and the Industrial University of Santander-Bucaramanga (Colombia).
She has also carried out research stays at Latin American and European universities. Her most recent stays include: in 2018 at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow (Scotland); in 2002 at the Faculty of Communication, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain); and in 2024 at the Faculty of Arts, Department of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Porto (Portugal).