Martin Noack studied Psychology at the Philipps-University in Marburg. Afterwards he went to Bremen to work on his doctorate about age stereotypes in Organizations and Older Workers. After his doctorate, he stayed at the Jacobs University as Post-doctoral fellow, Age Management Consultant and Coordinator of Knowledge Transfer and Consulting. Since 2012 he works at Bertelsmann Stiftung in Gütersloh as a Senior Expert for further education and training. He works on improving access to further education for people with low levels of formal qualification for example by developing tools and policy recommendations to make informally acquired skills visible. Using online-job-ad data, he also helps increase transparency of labour market demands for transversal skills and partial qualifications.
