Global Head of Nuveen Natural Capital, a farmland and timberland investment company owned by Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America (TIAA).
Nuveen Natural Capital is part of the wider Nuveen investment management business which has USD 1.3 trillion of assets under management for TIAA and other institutional and retail investors.
Nuveen Natural Capital manages USD 12.4B of capital invested in over 3 million acres of farmland, timberland and mitigation banks in the US, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Columbia, Panama, Poland, Romania, Australia and NZ producing over 46 different crops and growing 10 different tree species.
An Agricultural graduate of The University of Reading, after 13 years with the Cooperative Group Farms in the UK, latterly as Head of Farming Operations, Martin spent 5 years working on investment projects for private investors in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine. Prior to joining Nuveen Natural Capital, he was Head of Farmland Investment for Bank of New York Mellon’s subsidiary Insight Investment where he ran a $250m farmland strategy, investing in Australia, NZ, Chile, Poland and Romania.
Martin was Chairman of the 2017 Oxford Farming Conference, is a 2006 Nuffield Scholar and is a trustee of Nuffield International, whom he represents at the Private Sector Mechanism, part of the Committee for Food Security at the FAO in Rome.