Inés Teresa-Palacio

Inés joined Studyportals in September 2026 as Director of Analytics and Consulting. She is reponsible for ensuring that all our latest data, analytics and strategic insights support Studyportals’ clients and contribute to key sector conversations that affect international students worldwide.

Inés has more than two decades of experience in international higher education. She combines many years of consulting expertise with first-hand university experience, having held senior roles in Strategic Marketing, Student Recruitment, International Growth, Alumni Engagement and Advancement at various institutions (including at C-level). She was an international student in the UK and lived there for 20 years before returning to Spain in 2019, where she is currently based. Her work has taken her to Asia, the Americas and across Europe.

Inés has a degree in Journalism from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), a Master in Transnational Studies from the University of Southampton (UK) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the CIM. She has also completed executive education programmes at IESE (Spain) and UCLA (US). Inés is an active CASE Laureate and member of various advisory boards, frequent speaker at global events and feature writer for various higher education specialist publications.

Inés’ key challenge is usually how to prioritise and keep focused amongst the multiple interesting and relevant things that are happening within Studyportals, as well as those that are being uncovered and developed by the Analytics and Consulting team, and everything that is being discussed across the wider sector globally.

As a former international student, Inés has experienced first-hand the positive impact of global education for individuals, their communities, families and employers. This is what has kept her committed to the education sector throughout her whole career and what keeps motivating her day in and day out. As such, Inés’ main goal is to contribute to bring global education opportunities to as many students as possible, and to support the growth and progress of higher education worldwide.

Inés’ favourite part of working in Studyportals is the variety of global backgrounds and personal stories of everyone within the team, as well of course as the beautiful, fun and inspiring head office in Eindhoven (including the slide!)