Felix Martin Keynote Speaker

Dr. Felix Martin is an economist, fund manager and acclaimed author.  He is an advisor to global investors, governments, and corporate leaders and helps navigate complex risks with an approach that makes economics and finance digestible and engaging.

During a twenty-five year career in international finance Felix has managed and advised on funds investing in bond, currency, and credit markets globally with total peak assets in excess of $5 billion – at publicly-listed asset managers, leading private firms, and his own independent boutique.  Previously, he was an economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC, and the European Stability Initiative think tank in Berlin.

His best-seller Money: the Unauthorised Biography has been published in fourteen countries and ten languages, was a Financial Times Economics Book of the Year, and was called “compulsively readable” by the New York Times.  A prolific writer on financial topics, he has authored articles, op-eds, and book reviews for numerous trade and popular publications, including the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Wired, the Financial Times, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, and the New Statesman.  Since April 2023, he is a columnist for Reuters.

He holds the inaugural Chair of the FCA’s independent Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) Panel. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC and he teaches on the MBA programme at Oxford University.

Felix was educated in classics and international relations in the Oxford, Bologna, and Washington, DC, where he was a Fulbright scholar; and has a D.Phil. in Economics from Oxford. He is a regular speaker at international industry conferences and events, where he brings his relaxed and engaging presentation style to senior audiences in the complex world of global economics.