Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Maximilian Martin is the Founder of Impact Economy and passionate about creating value through industry transformation and new ventures. He serves as Executive Vice President & Global Head of Philanthropy at Lombard Odier, and led the transaction ICRC “Program for Humanitarian Impact Investment” (PHII) on the side of the co-sponsor. He has led investment transactions, investment opportunity sourcing & due diligence mandates in Europe, the US, Asia & Latin America. Prior roles include building the global philanthropic & impact investing services as Global Head & Managing Director for UBS, Senior Consultant with McKinsey & Company, instructor at Harvard’s Economics Department, and Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School. For the UK Cabinet Office, he wrote the primer “Status of the Social Impact Investing Market” for the first UK G8 social impact investment summit convened by the UK PM in 2013. In 2014, he created the Apparel Innovation Consortium (AIC) to help bring financing & world-class manufacturing principles to bear on the world's #2 polluting industry. Published by Springer, his book “Building the Impact Economy: Our Future, Yea or Nay” (2016) shows how sustainable finance can help us master the energy transition, upgrade global supply chains & modernize capital markets. Dr. Martin is a frequent author; his articles and position papers can be found at SSRN. Dr. Martin holds an MA in anthropology from Indiana U, a MPA from Harvard U and a Ph.D. in (economic) anthropology from U Hamburg. He also created the first university course on social entrepreneurship in Europe in 2003, and serves or has served as a Visiting Professor and Lecturer in Impact Investing & Social Business at the Universities of St. Gallen and Geneva, as well as at Ashoka U.
This book develops a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable new business approaches on a massive scale. It relates the power of entrepreneurship, investment and technology to four areas in which progress is urgently needed to get out of the world’s current impasse. These are: game-changing innovations in companies; a way forward for the global fashion industry that reconciles competitiveness and worker dignity; turning around the energy crisis; and restoring capital markets to being the funders of human progress and prosperity that they once were—the pieces of the puzzle that is our future. Numerous case studies and actionable guidelines show how to concretely get the job done. The book was one of the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in the relevant SpringerLink eBook Collection in 2016 - please help spread the word - thank you!
Founded in 1796, Lombard Odier has served its clients for seven generations and grown stronger through 40 financial crises. Lombard Odier has used imagination and innovation to provide wealth and asset management services to its private and institutional clients, and has developed a much sought-after technology platform to support them.