PERSON: Martina Donlon

United Nations Department of Global Communications

Chief of Climate Section

Martina Donlon heads the Climate Section at the United Nations Department of Global Communications in New York, managing campaigns and initiatives focused on climate action.

Before that, she led a UN 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 United Nations, she served as Assistant Director at the Council on Foreign Relations, as Special Assistant to the Swiss Ambassador to the UN, as Deputy Cultural Attaché of Switzerland in New York, and as a news editor at the online Wall Street Journal. She holds a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a Bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute.

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