Edmund Olivier is the Managing Director of Mirador Consulting Ltd and has over twenty years of international commercial experience in the United States, Europe and Middle East.

 

Clients include; clean technology producers, project developers, specialist funds, financial institutions, insurers, environmental consultants, primary brokers, utilities, World Bank and the United Nations.

Mirador is well connected to the international clean technology investment community and has a global network of associates to help monitor investment patterns and deal flow in the sector. Early stage companies working with Mirador benefit from this network for business development and fund-raising.

Edmund's work with international agencies, development banks and financial institutions over the last several years has facilitated broader investment into clean infrastructure projects through the adaption of existing or design of new financial structures. (Studies include Financial Risk Management Instruments for Renewable Energy Projects presented in Bonn 6/04, Contingent Financing Instruments for Clean Infrastructure Projects presented  in Paris 11/03.) Current work with the public sector focuses on the faciltation of R&D funding for early stage water and waste management technologies and training courses on climate change and clean energy policy for international financial professionals.

Prior to founding Mirador, Edmund has over fifteen years of wide-ranging commercial financial experience in; fund management, capital markets, project management, research and brokerage. He has started profitable new operating units for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Riyad Bank, NatWest Markets (now RBS), and Banque Indosuez (now Calyon) and began his career on the commodity trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1986.

Edmund has an MSc (Distinction) in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, and  BA in Political Science from Stanford University. He is a member of several financial and environmental professional associations and is registered with the UK Financial Services Authority.