Marta Foresti

Marta Foresti leads the Politics and Governance programme at ODI. Her interests include the political economy of development - with a focus on service delivery, justice, and rights - as well as conflict and fragility. She has an interest in applied social research methodologies and policy evaluation in particular . She has over ten years of research, evaluation, policy and management experience. Before joining ODI in 2006, Marta gained practical policy experience, including as a senior policy advisor in the Department of Development Policy of the Italian Treasury and as head of the Learning and Impact Assessment team at Save the Children UK and at Amnesty International. She has extensive country experience in West Africa, South and South East Asia, as well as in several European countries, including Italy and the UK.