Marta Foresti is the founder and CEO of LAGO, a research and creative collective on movement, culture and the arts. She is Visiting Professor of Practice at King’s College London, Chair of the Global Creative Economy Council, Senior Adviser at the Moleskine Foundation. Before creating LAGO, Marta spent most of her career as an executive and senior advisor in 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 and led the institute's migration and governance work and established ODI Europe. In her career Marta Foresti has collaborated with senior teams in UN agencies, international organisations, philanthropic foundations and universities as well as national and city governments.