Marta Foresti is the founder and CEO of LAGO, a research and creative collective on migration, culture and the arts. She is Visiting Professor of Practice at King’s College London and Chair of the Global Creative Economy Council. 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 and led the Africa Europe Mayors’ Dialogue. In her career Marta has collaborated with senior teams in UN agencies, international organisations, philanthropic foundations, and universities 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’s UK Evaluation and Research Unit. Marta is Senior Visiting Fellow at ODI Global and Senior Advisor to the Moleskine Foundation.