Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey
Honorary Professor
Martin R. Stuchtey is Professor of Resource Strategy and Management at the University of Innsbruck School of Management. He is Co-CEO, founder and investor of The Landbanking Group, a company dedicated to stop and reverse the loss of nature. He is also shareholder, founder and former managing partner of SYSTEMIQ, an innovation and investment firm focused on creating new land use, circular industrial and energy systems. Prior to founding SYSTEMIQ, Martin worked at McKinsey for 20 years where he founded and led McKinsey's Sustainability Practice. There and at SYSTEMIQ, he worked on the challenges of climate change (“A World Carbon Bank”), water scarcity (“Charting Our Water Future”), ocean degradation (“Ocean Solutions that Benefit People, Nature and the Economy”) and resource depletion (“A System Change Compass”).
Over the last fifteen years, Martin has been leading a large number of efforts to accelerate the transition towards circular industrial systems. Together with Ellen MacArthur, he initiated the Circular Economy Initiative at the World Economic Forum and was lead author of numerous reports (incl. foundational work such as “Towards a Circular Economy”; “Growth Within”, or “New Plastic Economy” or “Breaking the Plastic Wave”, “Planet-positive Chemicals”), articles, books and television broadcasts on the circular economy and our economic transition at large. He initiated the 2030 Water Resources Group and has been a long-time strategic advisor to the World Economic Forum. He is the author of the book “A Good Disruption – Redefining Growth in the Twenty-first Century.”
Martin Stuchtey served as a company commander in the German Alpine forces and worked as geologist in Southern Africa. He holds a BSc. Hons.-degree in economic geology/mineralogy from Rhodes University (South Africa), a master’s degree in business economics from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany), an MBA from Lancaster University (UK), and a PhD in regional economics from the Technical University of Dresden. Martin Stuchtey is co-chair of the board of the Alfred-Herrhausen Society, and holds various board positions, e.g., at the European Forum Alpbach or the Senckenberg Society. Martin is an avid rock climber, ski mountaineer and farmer. He is married to entrepreneur and book author Sonja Stuchtey (Co-CEO and -founder of The Landbanking Group) and has six children, he lives at Lake Starnberg in Germany and on his farm in Kollreid, Tirol.