Martin Koehring 🌏 Global Blue Economy and Sustainability Expert | Ocean Futurist | Charity Board Trustee | TEDx Speaker

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

Martin is a global ocean, climate and sustainability expert and futurist with 20+ years of experience. Currently, he is Director/Trustee at both the Marine Conservation Society, a leading ocean conservation charity in the UK, and the New Economics Foundation, a major sustainable-development think tank. He also serves as Ocean and Finance Specialist at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). Previously, he was Senior Strategic Expert in Blue Economy at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Head of The Economist’s World Ocean Initiative, Practice Lead for Sustainability, Climate Change and Natural Resources at Economist Impact (The Economist Group), and Global Director of Impact at the leading international sustainability NGO Forum for the Future.

A prolific global speaker, Martin has chaired the World Ocean Summit and spoken at other major global ocean, climate and sustainability events such as the UN Ocean Conference, UN World Ocean Day, Our Ocean Conference, COP26/World Biodiversity Summit, Island Finance Forum, Virtual Island Summit, World Water Week, Blue Earth, edie, Climate Week NYC, London Climate Action Week, Economist Sustainability Week and the World Green Economy Summit. He has published widely on ocean and sustainability issues on Economist Group platforms and in other reputable outlets such as UN Today, BusinessGreen, the T20 compendium for India’s G20 presidency and the Ocean Yearbook.

Martin is known for accelerating the growth and impact of the World Ocean Initiative, helping to establish Economist Impact’s Sustainability Project (winner of a Webby Award for “Best Writing – Editorial”), serving as project director for the award-winning Food Sustainability Index, and giving a TEDx talk on “How a just & regenerative mindset can help us navigate the polycrisis”.

Martin is available for consulting and speaking opportunities.

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