Marga
SOLER

Dr. Marga Gual Soler is the Executive Director for Capacity and Leadership at the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), where she leads global efforts to equip current and future leaders with the skills, mindsets, and anticipatory intelligence to navigate the accelerating frontiers of science and technology for the benefit of humanity. Her work empowers decision-makers across sectors to govern innovation responsibly in an era of profound geopolitical and planetary-scale transformations.

A pioneer of science diplomacy, Dr. Gual Soler has advised governments, universities, and international organizations for over 15 years on how science and technology can strengthen diplomacy, geopolitics, and multilateral cooperation. At the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy in Washington, D.C., she designed the first global curriculum in science diplomacy, training thousands of professionals from over 100 countries and facilitating the re-establishment of U.S.–Cuba scientific ties following the 2015 diplomatic normalization. A long-standing contributor to European science diplomacy, she served as high-level advisor to former European Commissioner for Research & Innovation Carlos Moedas, contributed to the research and training tracks of the Horizon 2020 Science Diplomacy Cluster, and is currently a member of the EU Science Diplomacy Working Groups shaping the EU strategy.

Dr. Gual Soler is a visiting professor at IE University in Madrid and has previously held faculty positions at Arizona State University (School for the Future of Innovation in Society) and UNAM Mexico (UNESCO co-Chair in Science Diplomacy and Heritage). Originally from Spain, she holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Queensland and has completed executive education programs at Harvard Kennedy School, Georgetown University, NTU Singapore, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. In 2019, she joined the largest-ever women in STEM expedition to Antarctica, promoting women's leadership in sustainability and climate action, and in 2020 she was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.