Martin Davies is the global head of Nuveen Natural Capital, the land-based
asset management division of Nuveen, and is responsible for $10B of
assets extending to 3 million acres in 10 countries globally.
His 30 years in the agriculture industry has included posts within
corporate agriculture, consultancy and investment. Prior to joining
Nuveen Natural Capital in September 2014, he led the deployment of
institutional investors’ capital into farmland in New Zealand, Australia,
Romania, Poland and Chile for Bank of New York Mellon’s asset
management subsidiary Insight Investment. After 13 years with the
Cooperative Group Farms in the UK, his lead into agriculture investing
was 5 years spent working on agricultural investment projects for private
investors in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
An Agricultural graduate of the University of Reading, Davies was
Chairman of the 2017 Oxford Farming Conference. He was a 2006
Nuffield Scholar and is a member of the Institute of Agricultural
Management and a director of Nuffield International.
