Maximilian Martin is the Founder and CEO of Impact Economy. His investment and advisory work as well as more than one hundred articles have helped define the trajectory of market-based solutions and the impact revolution in finance, business and philanthropy. He created Europe's first global philanthropic services and impact investing department for UBS and the UBS Philanthropy Forum, as well as the first university course on social entrepreneurship in Europe at the University of Geneva. In 2013, he was invited to write the primer on impact investing "Status of the Social Impact Investing Market" for the UK G8 policy makers' conference, which considered the potential and development options for this new branch of the financial industry. 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.