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

Speaking about “Impact Finance for a Sustainable Blue Economy” at Bali Ocean Days

I’m looking forward to speaking during the “Impact Finance for a Sustainable Blue Economy” session at Bali Ocean Days next week!

I’m looking forward to joining the stage with distinguished speakers such as David Aromokeye (The World Bank Group), Eddi Danusaputro (BNI Ventures), Okki Soebagio (Bali Investment Club), Minna Epps (IUCN Centre for Conservation Action), and Jimmi Tampubolon (Asian Development Bank).

Organised by Sky Blue Sea Foundation as well as Pascal Philippe and Darmawan & Associates, Bali Ocean Days is a meeting of public offices, private institutions and communities with a view to developing new synergies between these organisations and create opportunities for cross-team collaboration on long-term projects.

Get in touch if you are planning to be there or if you know someone I should connect with while there!

🗓️ Dates: 7th-8th February 2025 (Friday & Saturday)
📍 Venue: InterContinental Bali Resort Jimbaran
🔗 Click here to browse the two-day programme and reserve your seats

Tags: Blue Economy blue finance finance ocean

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 served as Sustainable Blue Economy Consultant (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”.

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