Marta Ochoa

Director of Youth and Senior Global Coordinator for Equal Opportunities, UNI Global Union

Marta Maria Ochoa is the Director of Youth and Senior Global Coordinator for Equal Opportunities at UNI Global Union, a global union federation that represents more than 20 million workers in trade unions in the services sector, which includes unions in the Finance, ICTS, Commerce, Media and Entertainment and Postal and Logistics sectors, amongst others.

Lawyer by trade with a Master’s degree in Journalism, she has worked for the last 7 years in helping increase diversity and equality in the trade union movement. Through her work, she advocates on women empowerment, access of women to leadership positions, work life balance and ending violence and harassment in the workplace, amongst other things.

Since 2016, she has worked in raising awareness on issues like the impact of technology and digitalization from a gender perspective and the need of inclusion and diversity in the development of new technologies to help close the existing gender gaps and create a new world of work more equal for all.