Rob Martin is Global Head of Investment Strategy & Research at LGIM Real Assets. He leads the formation of market and thematic views, with an emphasis on long-term drivers including ESG, supporting their integration into portfolio strategy. Martin is also responsible for performance assessment and analysis for real assets managed portfolios, driving the selection of objective reference points against which to assess investment performance and extracting value from performance data. He sits on the property, private credit and infrastructure equity investment committees, chairs the real assets performance oversight group and is a member of the real asset management committee. He was an economist with CBI and previously spent 3 years in a consultancy role in the oil & gas industry. Martin was the chair of the investment property forum (IPF) research steering group from 2015-18.