Fèlix Martí Ambel earned his degree in philosophy from the University of Barcelona. During the years of the dictatorship, he was a leader in the Catholic Scouts and collaborated with cultural resistance movements.

In 1975, he was elected president of the International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs-Pax Romana. He founded and headed the Unesco Centre of Catalonia (1984-2002), a prominent international NGO in the fields of human rights, self-determination, culture of peace, protection of linguistic diversity and interreligious dialogue.

He organized the Unesco seminars culminating in the Declaration on the Contribution by Religions to the Culture of Peace (1994), facilitated the creation of the Unesco Association for Interreligious Dialogue (AUDI) in 2000, and was the local coordinator of the Parliament of the World’s Religions held in Barcelona in 2004.

He has regularly visited Eastern religious communities in countries ranging from India to Japan and is the author of both the memoir Diplomático sin estado [Stateless Diplomat] (2006) and the book Dioses desconocidos, viaje iniciático a las religiones de Oriente [Unknown Gods: Initiation in Eastern Religions] (2013), which offers an overview of Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese religions.

In July 2003, he donated to Pompeu Fabra University a collection of around 7,000 volumes of monographs and 80 sets of serial publications in three main fields: philosophy, social sciences and theology. In 2016 and 2017, he donated an additional eleven manuscripts and eight liturgical or religious-themed books in various languages (Pali, Hindi, Arabic, Ge’ez, Burmese, Ukrainian and Russian).