Marta Ortega

Ortega was born on 10 January 1984 in Vigo, Spain. She studied at A Coruña and continued her baccalaureate education in Switzerland. She studied business at the European Business School in London and graduated in 2007, with a specialty in international entrepreneurship. The same year, she began to work at Inditex, at the London Zara store in Chelsea, then other locations and departments in the business. She currently works at the Inditex headquarters in Arteixo, Spain, for the women's product and design department, collaborating with Beatriz Padín.

In Arteixo, Ortega works with her father, Inditex founder Amancio Ortega, introducing new ways to communicate with the public. Since 2015, she has been on the board of directors of the Amancio Ortega Foundation. The foundation's scholarship program was modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic per an agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

In November 2021 it was announced that in 1 April she would be named chairperson of Inditex, succeeding Pablo Isla. Her appointment caused the company's share price to fall sharply. In her role, she will be expected to address the company's reputation of alleged forced labor and environmental impact.

She was ranked 32nd on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023.

Ortega has two children, a son and a daughter. She married Sergio Álvarez Moya in 2012, with whom she had her son, but separated three years later. In 2018 she was married to Carlos Torretta, a public relations employee at Inditex, with whom she has a daughter born in 2020. For her wedding to Torretta, she wore a Valentino gown.