Sandra Martinsone is Bond’s Policy Manager who will lead Bond’s policy and advocacy work on sustainable economic development including a wide arrange of themes: from investment to trade, decent jobs, global financial institutions, tax and more in between. In addition to that Sandra is also overseeing team’s grant projects and resources.
Previously Sandra has coordinated RedR’s international humanitarian capacity building programmes in East Africa and Middle East, worked as Politics and Governance Programme Manager at ODI, led one of the largest ever international tax justice advocacy and campaigning projects working with 24 organisations in 19 countries across 3 continents and developed advocacy strategy for ETI to advocate for workers’ rights in UK, Southeast Asia and Africa. She has also worked for UNDP and Foreign Office in Latvia.
In her spare time Sandra is writing/ doing research on progressive taxation and studying Public finance management.
Posts
From summits, lemons and cognitive dissonance to hope, solidarity and paradigm shift – 2023 in sustainable economic development
There have been a plethora of promises, commitments and legislation in 2023, but the current funding pledged falls way short for these to come to fruition. Bond’s Sandra Martinsone takes us through the highs and lows of sustainable economic development in 2023.
The UK-India trade deal should be a catalyst to put SDGs into action
The UK’s trade negotiations with India provide an opportunity to ensure the emerging agreement is a positive example of how trade can serve people and the planet – but the real question is, will it?
Four ways to reimagine public development banks to nurture more equitable, sustainable and rights-based development
How can we reimagine public development banks to transform the global financial system in support of common action for climate change and sustainable development?