Cristina Carrasco, PhD

Job title: 
Professor, The King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain
Bio/CV: 

Cristina Carrasco Garrido is a Professor and Researcher at the King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain where her research focuses on telework, the welfare and health of workers in the workplace, and the organization and management of companies. She is also a member of the high-performance research group of the URJC Open Innova.  Dr. Carrasco also obtained degrees in economics and in the law, and practiced as an auditor at Deloitte Consulting before obtaining her PhD in Business Organization. She earned honors and international mention for her PhD work.  After Deloitte, she founded a fintech where she worked as a lawyer to help over-indebted people restructure their debts through the “second chance” law in Spain.  Dr. Carrasco also has worked with colleagues in other distinguished universities on special projects including telework at the University of Birmingham (UK) and on workplace mental health at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). 

Research interests: 

telework, the welfare and health of workers in the workplace, and the organization and management of companies