Alexander Rau

Alex's Professional Profile

Founding Roles

Alex is the Founding Partner of:

• Environmental Commodity Partners LP (ECP): An investment fund manager dedicated to investing in environmental commodity markets.
• Climate Wedge Ltd: An independent carbon trading and climate finance investment firm founded in 2005.

Experience

Alex has 19 years of active investing and trading experience in:

• Climate finance
• Carbon markets
• Clean energy project finance and development

Investment Management

Alex has managed direct investments in carbon and related energy and environmental markets for several institutional funds, including:

• Over $200 million in AUM across several funds for ECP (2017-present)
• Inter-American Development Bank (2014-present)
• Several multi-strategy hedge fund and reinsurance asset management clients (2011-2017)
• Cheyne Capital (2005-2009)

Co-Founding Ventures

Alex co-founded:

• EOS Climate: A US carbon credit developer
• Up Energy: A Ugandan cookstoves distributor

Contributions to Standards

Alex wrote and launched the original version of the Voluntary Carbon Standard (now Verra), the most widely adopted trading standard for voluntary/non-compliance carbon assets.

Advisory Roles

Alex serves as an advisor to:

• The California State Treasurer and is a member of California’s Green Bond Market Development Committee
• The Climate Bonds Initiative as a senior advisor
• Quantitative trading firm Rosetta Analytics

Previous Experience

Alex previously helped build PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Climate Change Services team within the Energy Corporate Finance practice in London (2001-2004).

Education and Credentials

• Ph.D. in Physics from Oxford University
• BA from Cornell University
• CFA Charterholder