Felix Martin is an economist, fund manager, and development banker whose twenty-five year career in international finance has spanned both the public and private sectors. He currently serves as the inaugural Chair of the independent Cost Benefit Analysis Panel of the UK Financial Conduct Authority.
As a fund manager, he has designed, launched, and managed funds investing in global bond, currency, and credit markets, 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 General Secretary of the European Stability Initiative think tank in Berlin. His 2013 book Money: the Unauthorised Biography has been published in fourteen countries and ten languages, and was a Financial Times Economics Book of the Year.
Felix has an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, where he was a Fulbright scholar, and a D.Phil. in Economics from Oxford.
