Martin Koehring - Global Sustainability Expert | Ocean Futurist | 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.

Martin is a global ocean, climate and sustainability expert and futurist with 20+ years of experience. His recent roles include Global Director of Impact at the international sustainability NGO Forum for the Future, Head of The Economist’s World Ocean Initiative, Practice Lead for Sustainability, Climate Change and Natural Resources at Economist Impact (The Economist Group), Senior Strategic Expert in Blue Economy for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and Director/Trustee of both the people-powered think tank New Economics Foundation and the Marine Conservation Society (the largest marine conservation charity in the UK).

A prolific global speaker, Martin has chaired the World Ocean Summit since 2019 and has spoken at other major global events such as London Climate Action Week, Climate Week NYC, Economist Sustainability Week, edie, COP26/World Biodiversity Summit, World Water Week, Blue Earth, Sustainable Foods, the World Green Economy Summit and the UN Ocean Conference.

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 open to consulting and speaking opportunities.

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