MARTIN WHITTAKER, Director

Martin Whittaker leads MissionPoint’s environmental finance strategy, with a focus on origination and structuring in the carbon trading and specialty environmental commodity markets. Martin was most recently a senior vice president at Swiss Re where he was part of the Environmental and Commodity Markets team. At Swiss Re, Martin helped to establish and grow the company’s emissions trading and carbon insurance capabilities, and provided carbon advisory and clean energy market expertise to the company’s asset management organization. Prior to Swiss Re, Martin was a managing director of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., where he led the firm’s clean energy and carbon finance practice, and was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto where he taught environmental finance. Martin has also served in the downstream environmental group at Elf Aquitaine and in consulting with Golder Associates. Martin earned a PhD in environmental science from the University of Edinburgh, an MBA from the University of London, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from, respectively, McGill University, Montreal and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.