Martin Karm is the founder and director of Karm Plan Pty Ltd. He started his professional career with GHD in 2005, where he worked on the environmental impacts of some of Sydney's biggest projects, including the Sydney Water Desalination Plant and North West Rail Link.

After 3 successful years, he entered the NSW Public Service in 2008, joining Sydney Olympic Park Authority. Martin’s biggest achievement was reforming the statutory planning framework to better manage development applications, significantly reducing the time taken for new businesses and land uses to get started in the precinct and enable urban renewal post the 2000 Olympic Games.

In 2011, Martin joined the NSW Department of Education, just as the first waves of the student population boom entered the school system. Having to deal with a legacy of old planning approaches and distrust due to historic school closures, Martin’s biggest achievement was the development of the School Assets Strategic Plan. The plan, endorsed by Government, resulted in a $4.2b record investment in school infrastructure, and fundamentally changing the way NSW plans for and delivers school infrastructure.