Marta Foresti
Until April 2018 Marta was Managing Director at ODI and as a member of the ODI Senior leadership team she contributed to setting the institute's strategic agenda, priorities and goals. Marta also led ODI’s portfolio on governance, climate and natural resources. Her interests include the political economy of development and reform, migration and human mobility, natural resource management, conflict and fragility.
Before joining ODI she worked as a Senior Policy Adviser at the Italian Ministry of Finance where she advised the ministerial team on local development policies and programmes. She has over 20 years of research, policy formulation and delivery, as well as management experience and has an interest in applied social research methodologies and policy evaluation. She holds a master degrees in logic and philosophy of science from the London School of Economics and from Milan State University.
Media Coverage
Marta’s blogs and opinion pieces have been published internationally. She has featured extensively in The Independant, CBNC, Foreign Policy and Devex.
- 12 June 2018, Financial Times (FT)14 November 2017, El Pais
- 18 September 2017, Huffington Post1 September 2017, EU Observer
- 22 November 2016, The Independent18 October 2016, CNBC Africa
- 16 September 2016, Public Finance International8 September 2016, The Independent
- 30 March 2016, The Independent13 November 2015, Voice of America
Latest tweets from @martaforesti
23 JunThere’s no #migration crisis - the crisis is political opportunism. There’s no emergency, and the only danger in 2… https://t.co/n5uaiHJDGm- 23 JunRT @chrislhayes: The only political solution is for the pro-immigration faction, which is closer to the majority's views on the topic, to o…
- 22 JunRT @craigvalters: Pleased to see @DFID_UK Nepal getting the credit they deserve! Doing adaptive management in DFID remains really tough. D…
- 22 JunAh! Credit to friends and colleagues at @DFID_UK and @ODIdev @_TomWingfield @PeteVowles @leniwild @DavidBoothODI… https://t.co/RvEkcP8th8
- 22 JunRT @fasani_f: Excellent article on ElPais on the most recent academic research on refugees, including our work with @tomfratti and @ggminal…
- 22 JunRT @SaraPantuliano: ‘The key lesson from today and from 17 years of engagement in #Afghanistan is that we didn’t listen enough to Afghans a…
- 21 JunRT @ianbirrell: Does the European Union face an existential crisis over migration, asks @KirstyWark on #newsnight? No. Next question...
- 21 JunRT @martaforesti: 2) Finally! @labour rising star @stellacreasy speaks out on #migration and says it like it is! Be this the beginning of a…
- 21 Jun2) Finally! @labour rising star @stellacreasy speaks out on #migration and says it like it is! Be this the beginnin… https://t.co/dM9B8dKyW1
- 21 Jun1) ‘With nursing and doctor shortages, population ageing and tax revenues needed to fund future public service inv… https://t.co/zxjkEbNV5i
- 21 JunRT @staraboulsi: Beautifully-written by @_amroali on Mo Salah "He also raises questions that many power-holders will have to grapple with e…
- 21 JunRT @j_hagenzanker: Can livelihoods programmes prevent onward #migration from Ethiopia? our new article in @FMReview plus lots of other inte…
- 21 JunRT @tom_nuttall: Document-free travel inside the EU is in peril. My report on (and from) Schengen. https://t.co/u58ya5Au97
- 21 JunRT @a_a_jackson: Since last July, I've been traveling around Afghanistan to understand how the Taliban governs. This is what I found: https…
- 21 JunRT @m_clem: @heindehaas Thank you. Sometimes those work bans are a quintessential self-fulfilling prophecy — preventing people from making…
- 21 Jun@MartinRuhs Well, there are different views of course...here is Amb David Donoghue is who negotiated New York Decla… https://t.co/5jRvk6NVyM
- 20 JunRT @emmevilla: #MIGRANT PUSHBACKS IN #LIBYA 🚢⛔️. On #WorldRefugeeDay, let's remember that half of the men, women, and children attempting t…
- 20 JunRT @martaforesti: Important thread on how we got to #FamilySeparation-as a consequence of past and current #immigration policies that many…
- 20 JunPer la sicurezza conviene garantire un lavoro ai migranti di @maurizioambros8 https://t.co/DVCdVi8ACZ
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