Speakers

Marta Valdés García is Oxfam International Humanitarian Director. She provides leadership for the confederation on the design of quality standards and on the use of evidence to support organizational learning and performance as well as overseeing Oxfam’s surge and advisory support to emergency responses. She is responsible for fostering and driving innovation within technical areas and across sectors.

Ms Valdés García has a background in economics and a master’s degree in Development and Humanitarian Assistance. With over 20 years’ experience in relief and development work, she has led and supported an important number of humanitarian programs in Central America, Africa and in the South Caucasus. She has worked with different INGOs at field and headquarter level and with FAO. During her career, she has engaged in the quality agenda as a food-security advisor, monitoring and evaluation practitioner and advisor as well as in different leadership positions focussing on quality work and producing evidence and innovation to improve humanitarian work.

Since April 2019 she co-chairs the IASC Result Group 4 on Humanitarian-Development collaboration.