Martin Koehring - Global Sustainability and Ocean Expert

Job opportunity in food sustainability: Global Strategic Lead – Food System Transition

Exciting opportunity to join my team at Forum for the Future as Global Strategic Lead – Food System Transition (UK-based; hybrid or remote). Application deadline: 21 May 2023

Are you equipped with the vision and system-change skills to lead Forum for the Future’s efforts to help achieve a just and ecologically safe global food system?

We are looking for a strategic lead to turn this aim into a growing portfolio of impactful and context-specific programmes in food and agricultural systems across India, South East Asia, UK/Europe and the Americas.

A key member of our brilliant international team and reporting to the Global Director of Impact, you will combine a deep understanding of the global food system with strong knowledge of how to create systemic change and a flair for collaborative leadership.

If this role excites you, we would love to hear from you.

**We are an inclusive organisation that encourages applications from across our diverse communities.**

Read the job description and apply here

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I am Global Director of Impact at the international sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future. In this role I lead Forum’s programmatic work, with a focus on ensuring and increasing its impact on the world. I lead the Global Impact Team, which works across four geographies. For 25 years Forum has been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate transformation to a just and regenerative future. Forum is internationally recognised for its approach to driving systems change and inspiring alternative futures.

Before joining Forum I held various leadership positions at Economist Impact, which is part of The Economist Group (publisher of The Economist newspaper). I was the head of Economist Impact’s World Ocean Initiative; led Economist Impact’s Sustainability, Climate Change and Natural Resources practice in the EMEA region; and was the editorial lead of the award-winning Sustainability Project. Over the years I have directed many sustainability-related research and thought-leadership projects with partners in business, government, academia and civil society, in areas such as food sustainability, a just energy transition and the role of business in society.

As part of my wider engagement on sustainability, I am a trustee of the New Economics Foundation (a think tank focusing on social, economic and environmental justice). I sit on the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Inclusive Economies Advisory Group and the Sustainable Brands Turkey Global Advisory Board. I have also been a member of the Advisory Committee for the UN Environment Programme’s Global Environment Outlook for Business, a senior rapporteur at World Water Week, a faculty member in the Food & Sustainability Certificate Program provided by the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability and a judge at the Reuters Events Responsible Business Awards.

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