Monitoring Policy Making at the United Nations |
| ||||||||||||
Ciara Gilmartin
Biography
More Information on:
GPF Staff
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 was born in Preston, England, lived as a child in Verazi, Italy, and lived later in Mendrisio, Switzerland and Manchester, England. One branch of her family is Irish and her name has a Gaelic origin. She has spent many summers in Quilty, Country Claire.
After schooling in England, she 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.
Ciara likes gardening, French cinema, and American literature. She is an avid fan of traditional Irish music.
