Dr. Mary Martin

Director and Senior Policy Fellow

UN Business and Human Security Initiative at LSE IDEAS

Dr. Mary Martin is director of the UN Business and Human Security Initiative.

Her research focuses on the role of the private sector in conflict and peacebuilding and private security in the international system. She was co-ordinator of the Human Security Study Group 2006-1010, reporting to the High Representative of the European Union.

She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.