Speakers

Dr Maximilian Martin is the Global Head of Philanthropy at Lombard Odier. He created Europe’s first university course on social entrepreneurship (2003) and led the first philanthropic services and impact investing offering for a European bank (UBS, 2004-2009), also creating the UBS Philanthropy Forum. He wrote the Primer on impact investing “Status of the Social Impact Investing Market” (2013) for the G8 policy makers’ conference, which considered the potential and development options for this new branch of the financial industry for the first time. Dr Martin holds an MA in anthropology from Indiana University, a MPA from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in (economic) anthropology from the University of Hamburg. Previous employers and lecturing appointments have included McKinsey & Company, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepeneurship, UBS, Harvard University, the University of Geneva and the University of St. Gallen (where he keeps lecturing on social entrepreneurship and impact investing). In 2016, Springer published his book “Building the Impact Economy: Our Future, Yea or Nay.”