Marta Foresti

Founder and CEO

LAGO Collective

Speaker Biography

Marta is the founder and CEO of LAGO, a research and creative collective on migration, culture and the arts. She is Chair of the Global Creative Economy Council, Visiting Professor of Practice at King’s College London, Senior Advisor at the Moleskine Foundation and Senior Visiting Fellow at ODI Global.

Before creating LAGO, Marta spent most of her career leading research and policy organisations at a global and national level. She was Managing and Executive Director at ODI, a leading global affairs think tank, where she established the institute’s migration and governance work, later establishing ODI Europe.

Throughout her career, Marta has collaborated with senior teams at UN agencies, international organisations, philanthropic foundations and universities, as well as national and city governments: such as advising the ministerial team at the Italian Treasury on local economic development policies, and led Save the Children’s UK Evaluation and Research Unit.

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