Independent media for the global private client world
Wealth Office is a long-form interview series with the founders, families and private capital holders reshaping the world. Filmed in London's great rooms. Published across Western and Chinese platforms.
The guest's chairEvery Wealth Office conversation is filmed on location in London. The chair is the only seat a guest is offered.
The Wealth Office audience this week
Subscribers and followers across all platforms
Checked 12 Oct 2026. Updated every Monday.
What we are building
Wealth Office is building the independent media brand for the families and principals who hold private capital, and for the advisers, institutions and creators who serve them. Long-form conversations filmed in London's great rooms, published in six languages across Western and Chinese platforms, and organised into the ideas that shape how wealth is held, passed on and put to work.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record. New essays follow every new episode.
News
Briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and more. All news
Series architecture
Both series are filmed to the same production standard, in the same rooms, by the same team.
Editorial · Never sponsoredOne-on-one conversations exclusively with private capital-holding principals, authors and academics. The focus is their perspective, and how private capital is building the new world across business, technology, philanthropy and culture.
Exchange · Sometimes sponsoredTwo globally recognised leaders explore one subject where power, risk and long-term consequence intersect. Issue-led dialogue that stress-tests an idea or proposition.
Wealth Office X is where paid collaboration lives. It is always editorially led, never an advertisement in interview form.
The recurring questions
Ranked by how often each theme recurs across the episode library. Each theme has its own page that grows with every new episode.
In the chair
Every guest has a profile page drawing together their episodes, clips and the ideas they put on the record.
Behind the camera
The hosts, producers and strategists who make Wealth Office, in London, Hong Kong and Mumbai. Full biographies
From the comments
Real comments left under Wealth Office episodes on YouTube, quoted exactly as written. Collected weekly; a comment appears only after the team approves it.
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Hosts
Based in London, Michael is a close adviser to some of the world's most ambitious private capital holders, with particular depth across Asia's major business families and family offices. His work sits at the intersection of media, reputation and the relationships shaping this era of private wealth. He is Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, which produces Wealth Office.
About the seriesBased in Mumbai. Former South Asia Bureau Chief for the Daily Telegraph and host of The Diplomat's Beyond the Indus podcast, with over a decade advising UHNWIs and family offices across India and South Asia.
Based in Hong Kong. Moves between Western and Greater China circles in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, with long-standing relationships across Asia's family office and private client world.
Published in long, mid and short form
One filmed session becomes a long-form episode, mid-length clips and short-form cuts in English and Mandarin.
Collaboration partners
Wealth Office X places a firm's expertise inside a trusted, independent private client channel, with long-form authority, multi-platform distribution and content built for how AI now recommends people and firms.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays on private capital, family wealth and the forces reshaping the private client world, drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record.
Episodes
Long-form episodes from both series, with an overview, key ideas and verified quotes for each.
Philanthropy adviser who counselled Prince William and Prince Harry at St James's Palace
Biography
Kedge Martin is a charity leader, executive coach and adviser to wealthy families on philanthropy, succession and the next generation, who previously led two charities closely associated with Prince Harry. She has around thirty years of experience across business, politics, family offices and the charity sector in the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa.
Martin began her career in the late 1980s as a researcher to a Member of the European Parliament and as a political lobbyist. In 1991, shortly after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, she set up a business in Poland. Her earlier career also included work at the NSPCC.
As chief executive of WellChild, Martin grew a small paediatric research charity into a national charity for sick children in the United Kingdom. WellChild became Prince Harry's first patronage while she was running it. In 2009 she became the first full-time chief executive of Sentebale, the charity founded by Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso to support vulnerable children in Lesotho. Her work there included turning around a complex situation and managing significant reputational risk, as well as planning and leading international visits. She left Sentebale in 2012. She was also a founding member of the Charities Forum for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, and she has described working within St James's Palace advising Prince William and Prince Harry on their philanthropic goals.
After leaving Sentebale, Martin turned to coaching and advisory work. In 2016 she co-founded Longbow, a values-based training and coaching business. She also founded Forward Career Coaching, formerly Youngbow, to support young adults starting their careers, and published a workbook on finding a first job. In 2018 she created Rutbusters, a coaching and business connections company for senior professionals in career transition.
Today she works as an independent adviser and coach to senior professionals, family business owners and members of the next generation. She designs programmes ranging from residential leadership development and philanthropy projects to family reconciliation and preparation for entering a family business, and she has been lead facilitator for the Standard Chartered Global Next Gen programme. She is a senior adviser to Ispahani Advisory, and Spear's lists her in its index of generational wealth and family business advisers as founder of KM Advisory, which works with families on sudden wealth, family business and succession. Her public roles have included membership of the Independent Monitoring Board at Harmondsworth Detention Centre near Heathrow and service as a governor of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Kedge Martin appeared on Wealth Office alongside Jamie Webb in the episode "Are Billionaires Solving the Wrong Problems?" with Michael Macfarlane. Against the backdrop of a generational transfer of more than US$100 trillion and the rise of new wealth in Asia, they examined what patronage and visibility can achieve and how networks can build movements. Martin's answer to reputation washing and the distance between donors and the people they aim to help was proximity, and she urged new philanthropists to visit before they give. The discussion also covered starting the next generation early and small, the role of emotion in lasting commitment, and whether philanthropy needs to last for ever.
Kedge Martin and Jamie Webb draw on long experience of royal-linked charity work to examine how private wealth can give with more humility, proximity and lasting effect.
News
Weekly briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital, drawn from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and other leading titles, with context for families and their advisers.
About
Wealth Office is an independent media platform built for the private client world, launched in September 2025 and produced in London.
What Wealth Office is
Wealth Office explores the structural forces reshaping the private client world: the rise of private capital, the globalisation of family wealth, the shift of ambition and innovation toward Asia, the psychology of intergenerational stewardship, and the responsibility that comes with significant capital.
The series speaks with the principals themselves: founders, inheritors and long-term holders of capital, together with the authors and academics who study them. It does not cover market commentary or portfolio management. It asks how private wealth is used, governed and passed on, and what it is building.
Wealth Office is hosted by Michael Macfarlane and produced by a dedicated team in London and Hong Kong. Full biographies follow below.
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals, business-owning families, family offices, next-generation wealth holders, founders, and the lawyers, trustees and advisers who serve them.
Michael Macfarlane, Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, is the principal host. Joe Wallen in Mumbai and Stephanie Chen in Hong Kong join as hosts.
The Wealth Office series is never sponsored. Wealth Office X episodes may involve a paid collaboration partner and are always editorially led.
On YouTube at @wealthofficeofficial, with clips on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Substack, RedNote and Bilibili (as 财富办公室), and audio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.
Hosts and team
A London-based team with deep relationships across Asia's family offices, and fluency in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Wealth Office XWhere paid collaboration lives. Always editorially led.
Collaboration partners
Firms that serve the private client world collaborate with Wealth Office to own a theme: credible, independent, long-form video in front of the audience that matters, in the format AI-driven search now rewards.
The full collaboration brief, packages and audience data. Approved partners receive a one-time sign-in code by email.
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