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 Martin Koehring 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 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, and a faculty member in the Food & Sustainability Certificate Program provided by the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability.

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