Maria Martin-Prat is Deputy Director-General in the Directorate-General responsible for Trade Policy in the European Commission. She is currently responsible for Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Caribbean. She is also responsible for Sustainable Development and Green Deal Trade related issues, Services and Digital Trade, Investment and Intellectual Property.

Before her current post, Maria Martin-Prat was Director in DG Trade. Prior to that, she was consecutively Head of Unit responsible for Free Movement of Services and Freedom of Establishment, and Head of the Copyright Unit in the European Commission. She was a Member of Commissioner Joaquin Almunia's Cabinet.

Ms Martin-Prat also worked as a lawyer in the private sector and in the European Parliament.

Ms Martin-Prat is admitted as a solicitor in Spain and has two postgraduate degrees in European Law.