Montserrat Martínez Téllez is a research consultant on gender and armed violence. More broadly, her research examines human rights violations, crimes against humanity, transitional justice processes, public security and the use of force, national judicial reforms on criminal and military justice, in addition to identifying and developing strategies and policies to prevent and address armed violence in Mexico. Currently, she is part of the Working Group on Transparency of arms flows for the Open Government Partnership in Mexico. 

She holds a Master's Degree on Human Rights from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Martínez worked for the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights from 2015 to 2018. 

Martínez has been trained on measuring SDG16 in Latin America, peace mediation, and international public law, in particular in international humanitarian law (operational law in situations of armed conflict and violence, and women and public forces in conflict and post-conflict situations, both for Latin America region), consular diplomacy and protection, methodology for research of war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN mechanisms, addressing enforced disappearances, and better regulation of the internet in Latin America. She is also a lecturer at the Universidad Iberoamericana on human rights, security, and criminal policies.