Sandra Martinsone

Sandra Martinsone is Bond’s Policy and Advocacy Manager who leads Bond’s policy and advocacy work on sustainable economic development with a specific focus on the role and impact of development finance institutions especially BII, sustainable development finance, reforms of global financial architecture, advancing sustainable food systems, advocacy for fairer international tax and trade systems. Sandra also leads Bond’s engagement with the UK Government on G7 agenda through the Civil7 process and since 2022 sits on the global C7 Steering Committee.   She also led a research project on decolonising economic development and the role of the international development sector in supporting transformative change.

Previously Sandra has coordinated international humanitarian capacity-building programmes in East Africa and the Middle East, worked as Politics and Governance Programme Manager at ODI, led an international tax justice advocacy and campaigning project working in 19 countries across 3 continents and developed advocacy strategy for ETI to build responsible supply chains and protect workers’ rights in the UK, Southeast Asia and Africa. She has also worked for UNDP and the Foreign Office in Latvia.