Martin Koehring - Global Sustainability and Ocean Expert | Charity Board Member | TEDx Speaker | I help create multi-stakeholder partnerships & impactful research on 🌏 Climate 🌏 Nature 🌏 Blue Economy

Podcasts

• Host: Inside the Circle, a podcast series supported by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, covering the transition to circular plastics, food, fashion and cities, May 2022.

• Interviewee: Ocean Impact Podcast, How the Ocean Flows Through the UN SDGs with Martin Koehring, May 2023.

The Ocean Impact Podcast · How the Ocean Flows Through the UN SDGs with Martin Koehring: Part 1

The Ocean Impact Podcast · How the Ocean Flows Through the UN SDGs with Martin Koehring: Part 2

• Interviewee: Two the power of MORE, The Ocean – Big Business Tackling Climate Change, February 2023.

• Interviewee: Beyond Business with Wärtsilä, Why should we invest in the blue economy?, January 2023.

• Interviewee: IUCN’s Investing For Ocean Impact, Season 1, Episode 8: How banks and insurance companies can help Nature-based Solutions, February 2022.

• Interviewee: Therma’s Point 01 podcast, Martin Koehring of The Economist’s World Ocean Initiative, October 2020.

• Interviewee: The Peggy Smedley Show: Sustainability in the Seas, August 2020.

I’m a global ocean, climate and sustainability expert with 20+ years of experience, including progressively more strategic and leadership responsibilities. My most recent roles include Global Director of Impact at the international sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future, Board Member at the New Economics Foundation (a think tank focusing on social, economic and environmental justice), Head of the World Ocean Initiative and Practice Lead (EMEA) for Sustainability, Climate Change and Natural Resources at Economist Impact (part of The Economist Group). My previous roles at The Economist Group include managing editor, global health lead and Europe editor at The Economist Intelligence Unit. I love to work with organisations that build a just, resilient and regenerative future for people and planet.

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. I was also the editorial lead of the award-winning Sustainability Project.

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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