Maximilian Martin

Senior Advisor

Maximilian Martin is Senior Partner and Chief Strategist at IJ Partners, a wealth management company that builds wealth while engaging the future through investment strategies that fully integrate for-profit liquid and direct social investments in the asset portfolio. He also serves as Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Innovation at the University of St. Gallen, and as Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, where he teaches in the International Organizations MBA program. To help to develop a transmission channel for vanguard capital directed toward social change initiatives, he conceived, set up, and led UBS Philanthropy Services and its UBS Philanthropy Forum from 2004-2009; the unit was named the world's premier philanthropy advisory in 2007 by Euromoney. Dr. Martin also developed the first university course on social entrepreneurship in Europe for the University of Geneva in 2003.

Previous engagements include serving as Head of Research at the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Senior Consultant with McKinsey & Company, instructor at Harvard’s Economics Department, and Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Martin has authored over one hundred articles on social investment and related topics, and is a frequent speaker at international gatherings in the areas of wealth management, philanthropy, and social investment. He holds advanced degrees in anthropology and economics and a Ph.D. in economic anthropology.