Biography

Ciara Gilmartin has been the Security Council Program Coordinator at Global Policy Forum since September 2007. She organizes frequent meetings of the NGO Working Group on the Security Council with ambassadors and top UN officials and she plays a key role in running GPF's Security Council program, including internship selection and supervision, web oversight, and advocacy.

Ciara is half Irish and was born in England, were she lived part of her life. She also spent some of her childhood years in Italy and Switzerland. After schooling in England, Ciara enrolled in Sarah Lawrence College in the United States, where she majored in International Relations and French. She studied for a year at the Catholic University of Paris and also did a program with the School of International Training in Prague. She took her B.A. degree from Sarah Lawrence in 2003.

Before coming to GPF, she worked at Covington Holdings. She also worked for the UN representative offices of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom and Reaching Critical Will. Her UN-related work focused primarily on disarmament and in 2006 she followed the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development.

She recently published a paper on The Surge of Iraqi Prisoners.