Marta Torres Gunfaus is the Director of the Climate Programme.
She is responsible for strategy development, delivery and team management, ensuring policy relevance and real-world impact of IDDRI’s work to advance global climate action. She joined IDDRI’s team in 2018.Over the years, Marta Torres Gunfaus has built an extensive international network of climate and development practitioners. Her expertise spans long-term socio-technical transitions, systems thinking and complexity, stakeholder engagement, and climate pathways and strategies, with a particular focus on the EU and emerging economies. She has worked on the development of national climate plans and long-term strategies. Her work also encompasses industrial and energy transitions, and the policy choices needed to align decarbonization with socio-economic development. She combines expertise in domestic policy-making with diplomatic strategies to foster international cooperation.
Marta Torres Gunfaus also contributes to the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Initiative, which provides analytical and policy support at country level. She currently serves on the Expert Committee on Climate Change of the Parliament of Catalonia, the Advisory Council for Sustainable Development of the Government of Catalonia, the Climate Change Experts Group of Barcelona City Council, amongst other advisory roles.
She speaks English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German and Dutch.
Marta Torres Gunfaus has more than 18 years of professional experience working in climate change across the public, private and academic sectors, both from the Global North and the Global South to support the transition towards prosperous and equitable low-carbon societies. She has extensive international experience leading policy projects and large-scale research collaborations for philanthropic foundations and government bodies.
She previously served as Head of Climate Mitigation for the Government of Catalonia (Spain). In 2013, Marta Torres Gunfaus became co-Director of the MAPS Programme, a South-South collaboration that brought together experts to establish the evidence base for long-term pathways.
IDDRI is an international think tank based in Paris. It aims to contribute to a society that ensures decent living conditions for all, in an equitable manner, within the planet’s environmental limits. Since 2001, IDDRI has been working to develop solutions for ecological transitions, particularly in the fields of climate, biodiversity, the oceans, energy, transport, agriculture and food. It focuses on the economic, political and social transformations required to achieve environmental objectives, as well as on forms of international cooperation that can facilitate them. Drawing on science-based research and foresight work, IDDRI produces analyses and proposals aimed at governments, international organizations and economic decision-makers, particularly at European level and in international negotiations. It also contributes to dialogue between public and economic actors and civil society to facilitate the implementation of these transformations. IDDRI brings together a multidisciplinary team of around 50 staff members and works with an extensive network of partners across Europe and around the world. All its work is publicly available.
