Martina Donlon

Climate Communications Team Lead, United Nations

Martina Donlon currently heads the Climate Communications Team at the United Nations Department of Global Communications in New York, managing campaigns and initiatives focused on climate action. Before that, she led a communications team on the Sustainable Development Goals, managed UN human rights campaigns, and headed communications and change management at the UN regional service center in Uganda. Before joining the UN, she worked as Assistant Director at the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as Special Assistant to the Swiss Ambassador to the UN, Deputy Cultural Attaché of Switzerland in New York, and as editor at the Wall Street Journal online. Martina holds a bachelor’s degree from the Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston.