Martin Koehring - Global Sustainability and Ocean Expert

Global Health Expertise

In my role as Global Health Lead of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Thought Leadership practice I led and managed the delivery of numerous high-profile research programmes in global health.

My expertise spans several important areas of global health, for example:

Healthcare system research
– Global Access to Healthcare: Building sustainable health systems
– Modernising health systems in the Balkans

Policy response to diseases / disease areas
– Global cancer preparedness
– Addressing non-communicable diseases in adolescence
– The next pandemic? Non-communicable diseases in developing countries

Value-based healthcare
– Value-based healthcare in Sweden: Reaching the next level
– Value-based healthcare in Europe: Laying the foundation

Latest Global Health Posts

Anniversary: 10 years at The Economist GroupNovember 1, 2021
Cancer preparedness in Latin America: The need to build on recent progressOctober 3, 2019
Index of Cancer Preparedness reveals huge gaps in health system readiness and governanceMarch 28, 2019
Why the fight against non-communicable diseases starts in adolescenceMarch 26, 2019
Sweden offers both best practice and room for improvement on value-based healthcareFebruary 5, 2019

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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