Martin Stucki

Biography

Martin Stucki brings a distinctive combination of executive leadership, governance expertise, and academic engagement, grounded in over two decades of international experience across Europe, the MENA region, and sub-Saharan Africa. His career reflects a commitment to continuous development, ethical leadership, and bridging the gap between academia and practice.

Martin served for 13 years as CEO of Transitec Consulting Engineers Ltd, a Swiss-based specialist in transport planning, management and economics. As a business leader, Martin spearheaded Transitec's development into an internationally active consultancy with 130 staff based across eight countries, as well as the company's transition to broad-based employee ownership, a pioneering transformation in Switzerland. As a transport expert, Martin led strategic transport policy development and governance reform initiatives across over 25 countries, advising governments and international institutions on sustainable urban mobility whilst contributing directly to significant transport planning efforts, infrastructure projects, and capacity building programmes.

Based in Edinburgh since 2019, Martin holds a portfolio of roles combining non-executive directorships, advisory work, and consultancy, supporting SMEs and startups primarily across engineering and design, renewable energy, and environmental services. Martin is a member of the Institute of Directors, the Association of Business Mentors, and the Non-Executive Directors' Association.

Martin's main interests centre today on entrepreneurship and governance practices within SMEs, with a particular focus on innovative ownership models. His 2024 research, "Employee-owned Entrepreneurship: Lessons from and for Scottish SMEs", was highly commended by the inaugural Nigel Mason Award at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

Martin is keen to contribute to both academic and business communities through collaborative exploration, knowledge exchange, and mentoring, drawing on his experience navigating complexity whilst fostering cultures of progress and accountability. He is particularly interested in meaningful initiatives that enable academic insight to inform practical solutions for real-world challenges – and vice versa! – especially in support of SMEs and entrepreneurial leaders.

Qualifications

• 2024 Executive MBA (University of Edinburgh), with Distinction
• 2002 MSc Civil Engineering (ETH Zurich)
• 2022 PGCert Non-Executive Director Programme (University of Edinburgh)
• 2017 PGCert Foundations for Leadership (IMD Business School)
• 2003 PGCert Land Use Planning & Management (Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale)