Teresa Marten studied Political Science in Dresden, Buenos Aires, and Osnabrück. She completed her Masters in Democratic Governance and Civil Society – associated with the Helmut-Schmidt-Programme (Public Policy and Good Governance, PPGG) – at the University of Osnabrück in 2018. 

She worked for the Federal Foreign Office during the G20 Summit 2018 in Argentina as part of the protocol staff at the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. As a project coordinator for the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation’s regional program ADELA (Alliances for Democracy and Development with Latin America) headquartered in Panama, she was responsible for project and event management regarding the topics – security, multilateralism, and the UN Agenda 2030.

In 2021 she joined the Global Solutions Initiative Foundation as a Speaker Manager for the 2021 Global Solutions Summit.