Ed Humphrey is a principal consultant and leads our Climate Change and Disaster Risk team. He is a highly experienced manager of large-scale government reform programmes, including the Low Carbon Support programme to the Ministry of Finance in Indonesia and the Climate Proofing Growth and Development (CPGD) programme to mainstream climate change resilience measures within policy-making across South Asia.
Ed’s expertise lies in the integration of climate change programmes into governments’ budgeting, planning and policy development processes. Prior to joining OPM he was long-term adviser to the Budget Office of the Ministry of Finance in Guyana.
Ed has an MSc in Economics from LSE and an MA in Economics and Management from Oxford University.
Between March 2019 and March 2024 we supported the Government of Ethiopia, through a Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) £26m technical assistance facility, in strengthening disaster risk management systems and building greater resilience to climate and humanitarian shocks.
Establishing viable alternatives to carbon-intensive development in Indonesia
This project is helping mainstream climate change resilience measures within budgetary planning and policymaking across South Asia.
This three year management project of the Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme will help strengthen governance across Indonesia’s forestry sector.
This project is helping support high-impact, evidence-based policymaking in Uganda.
This innovative FCDO-funded research programme in six countries explored how to improve the resilience of social services during and after external shocks
We worked across the policy cycle for integration of climate change related risks and opportunities into country-specific policies, budgets and investments.