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

Moderating at World Ocean Summit Asia-Pacific

WOS APAC 2021: Developing the business case to attract early investors

It’s Day One of Economist Impact’s World Ocean Summit Asia-Pacific. Join us today for some fantastic sessions.

I will be moderating a panel discussion in the Finance track on “developing the business case to attract early investors”.

I will be joined by three excellent speakers:

• Jean-Paul Adam, director, technology, climate change and natural resources, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

• Maoi Arroyo, principal and co-founder, Ignite Impact Fund

• Rob Kaplan, chief executive and founder, Circulate Capital

Register for this great virtual event for free today 👉https://bit.ly/3lsba0T

Key talking points

What are early investors looking for? How can projects be structured to make them attractive to investors and gain investor confidence? How are accelerators opening up new opportunities in the region?

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Integrating Blue Industry and Blue FinanceJuly 1, 2025
Highlighting the importance of the ocean and blue finance at London Climate Action WeekJune 26, 2025
Speaking at the Ocean-Climate Nexus during London Climate Action WeekJune 19, 2025
Insights from the UN Ocean Conference: Mainstreaming sustainable blue financeJune 17, 2025
Delivering opening remarks for Biodiversity Credit Alliance event at UN Ocean ConferenceJune 13, 2025

Tags: blue finance ocean World Ocean Summit

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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