Rupert Edwards

About

Rupert Edwards

Rupert is a Senior Advisor for Forest Trends, a Washington D.C based conservation organisation and an advisor to the Environmental Defense Fund. He has previously acted as a consultant to the World Bank and Vivid Economics, and participated as an expert on environmental finance issues, including with the US State Department, UK government, OECD, United Nations, government ministries in Brazil and Peru, and the NDRC of China.

Rupert started his career in finance, working for JPMorgan from 1988 to 2002, including as Head of European Government Bond trading. He was a Managing Director of Climate Change Capital until 2011.

Rupert has an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London and an MA in History from Trinity College, Cambridge and is a trustee of the Wye and Usk Foundation.