Join us for an engaging Career & Employability session designed for CMCI Master’s and PhD students at King’s College London. This event explores how policy research can extend beyond academic boundaries and open pathways into impactful careers. Our speaker, Marta Foresti, Visiting Professor of Practice and founder of LAGO, will share insights from her extensive experience in global policy, research, and entrepreneurship.

Over tea, Marta will discuss what it means to be a policy expert, how to enter this field, and how research can bridge the gap between academia and employment. She will also reflect on her entrepreneurial journey with LAGO and offer practical advice on leveraging research for policy engagement and creative ventures.

Agenda:

15:00 – 15:10 I Welcome & Introduction

15:10 – 15:40 | Talk by Marta Foresti

15:40 –16:00 | Q&A and Networking

Speaker:

Marta Foresti 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, Senior Adviser at the Moleskine Foundation, Senior Visiting Fellow at Birmingham University, ODI Global and formerly at the London School of Economics. 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 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 holds an MA in philosophy of science and logic from La Statale of Milan and an MSc in research methods and theory of probability from the London School of Economics and King's College London.

We have limited capacity for this event. Book your place soon!

*If you are a BA student or from a different department or faculty and are interested in this topic, please, feel free to join us!

If you yave accessibility requirements or questions, please, get in touch with Dr Mabel Machado (mabel.machado_lopez@kcl.ac.uk) or Dr Roberta Comunian (roberta.comunian@kcl.ac.uk).