Chair of GCEC and CEO of LAGO Collective
Marta is the founder and CEO of LAGO, a research and creative collective on migration, culture and the arts. Before creating LAGO Marta spent most of her career as an executive and senior advisor in leading research and policy organisations at global and national level. She was Managing and Executive Director at ODI, a leading global affairs think tank where she established and led the institute migration and governance work and established ODI Europe. Marta is now Senior Visiting Fellow at ODI and she leads the Africa-Europe Mayors’ Dialogue.
In her career Marta collaborated with senior teams in UN agencies and other international organisations, philanthropic foundations as well as national and city governments: she advised the ministerial team at the Italian Treasury on local economic development policies and led Save the Children UK Evaluation and Research Unit. She is currently Senior Adviser at the Moleskine Foundation and Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Birmingham University. Marta holds an MA in philosophy of science and logic from La Statale of Milan and an MSc in research methods and theory of probability from the London School of Economics.
