Mary Martin

Biography

Mary Martin is Senior Research Fellow at LSE IDEAS and the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and visiting Professor at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), where she teaches on Private Security in the International System. Her research interests include the role of corporations in conflict, business and human rights local ownership of external interventions and changing concepts of security. She is director of the UN Business and Human Security initiative at LSE IDEAS to develop innovative models of multi-stakeholder partnership between the UN system, private sector and governments to address resilience and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in post-conflict and post-crisis spaces; she also leads the LSE team on the EU Horizon 2020 project Whole of Society conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

Research Interest

Political Science, Economics