Marta has over eight years of experience in private and public sector innovations in healthcare, finance, and energy around the world. As a former Social Enterprise Specialist at the World Bank Innovation Labs, Marta was instrumental in designing ~$330M innovation programs across Africa, South Asia, and Europe. She pioneered the first global course on scaling social enterprise innovation and global Human-Centered-Design incubator. Currently, Marta is a dual MBA – MPA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She also is a member of the Harvard Student Council launching the first Harvard Social Innovation Studio.  

Marta also founded and incubated several award-winning ventures, including Brickonomics, the 1st LEGO game on economics, and Dignify, a digital work platform for refugees, recently awarded by the Clinton Global Initiative. Currently, she advises several start-ups, bringing together business strategy, Human Centered Design and Behavioral Insights to create and scale effective innovations. Her portfolio includes: a digital product leveraging machine learning to predict HIV and TB patients’ risk levels in South Africa (with a mobile health start-up Dimagi) and a Fin-Tech solution leveraging behavior insights to help young UK citizens save (with BI Ventures).