Meritxell Martell holds a PhD on Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). She is the founder and managing director of Merience Strategic Thinking. She has been working as a consultant on communication and stakeholder involvement in controversial environmental decision-making processes for more than ten years.

Merience Strategic Thinking is an SME which offers strategic counsulting services in the field of environmental governance. Merience Strategic Thinking focuses its activities on the analysis and development of strategies for stakeholder involvement and communication in the field of risk, such as nuclear energy, radioactive waste, carbon capture and storage and remediation of contaminated areas.