Martin is the Executive Director of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Co-Founder of the Tech Diplomacy Network. Previously, he served for two years as Austria's first Tech Ambassador in Silicon Valley. During more than five years as Head of Open Austria and Austrian Consul in San Francisco, he shaped the emerging field of tech diplomacy, engaged in transatlantic digital diplomacy and digital human rights. Martin developed digital humanism as a strategic focus of Austrian foreign policy. He initiated Open Austria's "Art + Tech Lab", and co-founded the European art + tech + policy initiative "The Grid". Martin is a fellow at the Berggruen Institute focussing his research on tech governance and diplomacy.