Marta Bautista Forcada is a Program Officer at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, working with the Prevention, Peacebuilding, and Protracted Crises program.
From 2020 to 2023, Marta worked at the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies with the SDG16+ team. Prior to joining CIC, Marta worked with various international peacebuilding and human rights organizations, including Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training, Amnesty International, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, NYU’s Peace Research and Education Program (PREP), and the International Peace Institute. Her work has focused on the 2030 Agenda, peacebuilding, prevention, human rights, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Her research has focused on violence prevention, the WPS agenda, and private military and security companies. At NYU PREP, she conducted field research in Colombia focusing on FARC-EP ex-combatants’ perceptions of the 2016 Peace Agreement implementation process and the reparations system.
Marta holds a master’s degree in global affairs from New York University. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Pompeu Fabra University in Spain.
