Maximilian Martin tells us about the most successful practices that should be implemented on a global scale.
Ultimately, consumerism wasn’t invented to be reasonable or sustainable. On the contrary, people are constantly being pushed into buying things they have no need for, objects that just aren’t designed to last, houses that are bigger than we require. So, how can capitalism become more sustainable? This is one of the many ideas that Maximilian presents in the following interview. Maximilian Martin is the Founder and Global Managing Director of Impact Economy SA and the Founder and President of the Board of the Impact Pledge Foundation. He also serves as Founding Faculty in Residence at Ashoka U (USA) and Lecturers in Social Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of St. Gallen, in Switzerland.
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Max has authored over one hundred articles on social business and philanthropy, corporate responsibility, impact investments, and related topics, such as “Building Impact Businesses through Hybrid Financing: Special Impact” (May 2014).
He previously served as Founding Global Head and Managing Director of UBS Philanthropy Services, Senior Consultant with McKinsey & Company, an instructor at Harvard’s Economics Department, and Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School. Maximilian Martin created and led Europe’s first global wealth management philanthropic advisory and impact investing platform, UBS Philanthropy Services and the UBS Philanthropy Forum, as well as the first university course on social entrepreneurship in Europe, at the University of Geneva, and created the brand Impact Economy.
Impact Economy claims to have conducted “numerous advisory mandates, investment transactions” and participated in “several important innovations in the field of social change around the world.” Martin was recently invited to write the primer on impact investing for the G8 policy makers’ conference. He 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.
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Ana Teresa Silva is a journalist, writer and life coach.
After many years as a freelance journalist, working on TV documentaries and for several newspapers and magazines, she founded I’M Magazine, an international digital magazine that covers projects and extraordinary people that are changing the world.
Since 2008 she has been interviewing social entrepreneurs and innovators, futurists and change-makers, thinkers and facilitators from all over the world and sharing compelling life stories, ®evolutionary roads, projects for a sustainable future and ideas in motion…
Ana Teresa is also the Managing Director of a portuguese digital magazine on health and well-being. As a writer, she authored 6 books (one of her novels won a 1st prize fiction award), and she has also written 2 children’s theater plays and a daily TV series. Her last published novel, “Amanhã é outro dia” was published in November 2014 by Talent Hunter Editions.
She works also as a Life Coach and PsyCH-K facilitator.
