Jens Martin Skibsted

Jens Martin Skibsted, global partner at Manyone, is a multiple-award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher. Best known for his urban mobility designs for Biomega, and collaborations with design superstars such as Marc Newson and Bjarke Ingels, he is the founder of Biomega. He has also helped found several design consultancies, including Skibsted Ideation, KiBiSi, and Manyone. His designs live in the collections at the MoMA, Le Cnap, Designmuseum Danmark, SFMOMA, etc. He is on...See more

Jens Martin Skibsted, global partner at Manyone, is a multiple-award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher. Best known for his urban mobility designs for Biomega, and collaborations with design superstars such as Marc Newson and Bjarke Ingels, he is the founder of Biomega. He has also helped found several design consultancies, including Skibsted Ideation, KiBiSi, and Manyone. His designs live in the collections at the MoMA, Le Cnap, Designmuseum Danmark, SFMOMA, etc. He is on the board of the Danfoss Foundation, Biomega and Manyone and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Mobility Transitions. He is formerly the chairman of the Danish Design Council, the vice chair of World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation and co-chair of World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Entrepreneurship and on the advisory board of the INDEX prize and MindLab. Jens Martin is also a Young Global Leader alumnus who has spoken at Davos, DLD, TED, and more. His writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, Borsen, Washington Post, and Fast Company. See less