Vanessa Pérez Miranda is a lawyer specialised in international business with a Master in International Tourism by the Pantheon Sorbonne University. She has 15 years of experience in managing projects focused on innovation and internationalisation mainly in the railway sector.
As responsible for customer service and quality of tourism trains of the Spanish Railways for 4 years, she became a senior expert on tourism by rail. Now she is in charge of the UIC TopRail project, whose aim is to enhance the visibility of tourism opportunities for railways.
She is also responsible for the UIC sector dedicated to Commuter and Regional Train services and coordinator of the UIC groups of railway experts on Customer Experience and Accessibility, also run by the UIC Passenger Department.
During the Covid-19 pandemic 2020-2022 she has been part of the UIC Covid-19 Task Force Core Team as UIC contact link with the Railway Community and assumed a similar role in the coordination of the UIC Refugee Task Force in 2022.
She has been also involved in different European Projects like the Erasmus + Project RailtoLand and the Multimodal H2020 SESAR Project Modus.
She is Senior Advisor for the UIC Latin-American Region since 2019.
