Martin Burt

Biography

Dr. Martin Burt is social entrepreneur who has developed two social innovations: the financially self-sufficient agricultural high school model and the Poverty Stoplight, a new poverty metric and coaching methodology that is currently being implemented by more than 510,000 families and 850 organizations in 60 countries. He is the founder (1985) and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, a social enterprise named Latin America’s most impactful and innovative development organization by the Inter-American Development Bank. In public service, he has served as Chief of Staff to the President of Paraguay, was elected Mayor of the capital city of Paraguay, Asunción, and was appointed Vice Minister of Commerce. Dr. Burt has written books on economics, development, municipal government, poetry, and education. His latest books are “Who Owns Poverty?” and “Paraguay sin Pobreza” He holds a PhD from Tulane University and is Visiting Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).