Chief Executive Officer
JUST Capital
Martin Whittaker is the founding CEO of JUST Capital, the leading nonprofit in the stakeholder capitalism arena. He is also Co-Chair of the Edelman Trust Institute, a co-founder and Board member of the CREO family office investment syndicate, a Board member of H2 Clipper, a member of the Forbes Finance Council and Forbes Contributor, and a Commissioner to the World Business Council on Sustainable Development’s inequality initiative. He was named to the 2020 NACD Directorship 100 – the annual list of the most influential people in the boardroom and on corporate governance – and to Business Insider’s 2020 List of 100 People Transforming Business.
Prior to JUST Capital, Martin was a founding partner and investment committee member at Sonen Capital, an impact investing firm, a Director of MissionPoint Capital Partners, a family office-led private equity firm; Senior Vice President at Swiss Re, where he was part of the Environmental and Commodity Markets team; and Managing Director at Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc.
Martin has also provided expert testimony on environmental markets to the U.S. Senate, served on the G7 Impact Taskforce’s Working Group on Impact Transparency and Integrity, consulted for multiple major corporations on sustainability- and impact-related matters, and presented to audiences at, among others, the World Economic Forum, CNBC, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the BBC.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, an MBA from the University of London, an M.Sc. from McGill University, and a B.Sc. from the University of St. Andrews.