Martin works across impact assessment, capital projects, and sustainability strategy at AEA, making sure AEA expertise reflects the current state-of-the-art in research. He has developed widely adopted frameworks for monitoring, managing, and benchmarking cultural impact. He has contributed to projects for Qatar Museums and Dubai Culture and provided high-level expertise for the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in Paris and the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CiMAM) in Barcelona.

Martin has been a professor in the Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne since 2017. In this role, he teaches and conducts research on the sustainability transition in cities, with a specific focus on culture and sports. He advises major institutions such as the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research in Berlin in a strategic capacity as a member of their councils. He co-founded and secured multi-year funding for Culture for the Planet, a global initiative harnessing co-produced research to accelerate the sustainability transition in the cultural sector.

A native of Munich, Martin read for an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge and holds a doctorate ‘summa cum laude’ in Human Geography from the University of Frankfurt. He is currently based on the shores of Lake Geneva and is fluent in English, French, German, and Italian, with a working comprehension of Spanish and Russian.