Martin Sprott

Martin is a non-resident fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi). His research and consulting focus areas are economic development, trade policy, and environmental issues.

His specialist interests include: private sector solutions to development, accelerating the energy transition and the economics of biodiversity. Among other assignments, he has advised the UN Secretariat in partnering with businesses to address climate change, worked with several industrial companies to develop strategies to manage their energy use and carbon emissions and developed several integrated community-development and biodiversity-protection projects. He is leading a multi-sector effort to develop a market mechanism to ensure biodiversity resources are protected.

He is currently the Managing Director of Scaled Impact, a project development company based in Johannesburg and Berlin. He works with renewable energy and resources companies as well as government and multilateral agencies to invest in and develop regional economies. The focus is on large-scale economic projects with the potential to support and transform communities.

Prior to co-founding Scaled Impact, Martin was a principal with A.T. Kearney in Johannesburg, where he built their Africa practice. He led strategy and transformation projects in the mining, chemicals, energy and telecommunications sectors across the continent and in Asia and Latin America.

He was previously a restructuring director of the European electronics company Grundig; serving also as the Managing Director of its Nordic and Baltics region. He has worked as a strategy consultant at Roland Berger and as a commodities trader at Cargill.

Martin studied LLB Laws and MSc International Political Economy, both at the London School of Economics. His research interest was in trade-offs between trade and environmental protection, especially in the dispute settlement mechanisms of the World Trade Organisation.