Marta Marañón Medina, General Director of Fundación Recover

Marta Marañón has been working for more than 20 years in management teams of foundations. She is a strong advocate for the professionalization of organizations in the Third Sector. In 2023 and 2024 she was named one of the Top 100 women leaders in Spain.

As director of Fundación Recover, she promotes health cooperation in sub-Saharan African countries. A trained geographer, she specialized in evaluation of programs and projects for development cooperation and humanitarian action when she was appointed deputy director of the DARA International Foundation in 2003. Since then, she has led more than 30 work missions in crisis contexts and in multiple countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia. He carried out the Social Leadership and Innovation Program at ESADE’s Non-Governmental Organizations when he joined the management team of Ayuda en Acción. For 12 years, he represented Ayuda en Acción institutionally and promoted partnerships with the private sector.

He has served as a spokesperson in the media and has participated in numerous national and international forums and conferences. promoting the role of civil society and promoting the measurement of social impact, sustainability and corporate social responsibility. He has teaching experience and has contributed to weaving Strategic alliances and collaborative synergies between civil society organizations and the private sector to generate more and better social impact.

Marta Marañón has been a member of the Boards of FORÉTICA and the Spanish Association of Foundations. She is also the president of the Society of Friends of the National Museum of Natural Sciences and Patron of the Ortega y Gasset-Marañón Foundation.