Many Climate Scientists Moving from Fieldwork to Jobs in Financial Services
LONDON – Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF.
Now she’s an analyst for Lombard Odier, charged with improving the $350 billion Swiss bank’s green credentials.
“It’s really important that finance recruits from science,” said Velez, one of a growing number of campaigners and scientists who have switched to banking, which she hopes can play a role in “greening the polluting industries.”
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LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF.
Laura Garcia Velez poses for a photo in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in 2017, in this handout photo. Courtesy of Laura Garcia Velez/Handout via REUTERS
Now she’s an analyst for Lombard Odier, charged with improving the $350 billion Swiss bank’s green credentials.
“It’s really important that finance recruits from science,” said Velez, one of a growing number of campaigners and scientists who have switched to banking, which she hopes can play a role in “greening the polluting industries”.
Climate scientists swap fieldwork for finance
By Iain Withers, Carolyn Cohn and Simon Jessop
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF.
Now she s an analyst for Lombard Odier, charged with improving the $350 billion Swiss bank s green credentials. It s really important that finance recruits from science, said Velez, one of a growing number of campaigners and scientists who have switched to banking, which she hopes can play a role in greening the polluting industries .
Apr 15, 2021
London – Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF.
Now she’s an analyst for Lombard Odier, charged with improving the $350 billion Swiss bank’s green credentials.
“It’s really important that finance recruits from science,” said Velez, one of a growing number of campaigners and scientists who have switched to banking, which she hopes can play a role in “greening the polluting industries.”
Activism and finance may seem an unlikely pairing of two implacable foes.
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