Andrew is the Former Head of the £103m Renewable Energy Investment Fund by Scottish Investment Bank – investing debt and equity in a range of marine, low carbon and community owned renewable energy projects – and former Head of Investment for DP Energy – a renewable energy and sustainable development specialist operating in sites across the world – and is now running his own consultancy – Deja Blue Consulting – helping shape projects & businesses and raising finance for them and their projects and a Director of Greenbackers Investment Capital specialising in raising finance for low-carbon, cleantech and climate change businesses. Greenbackers are organisers of the 26forCOP26 Program. He is one of the Expert Group advising on the E.U.’s new Innovation Fund and has been closely involved in the emergence of the Blue Economy work of the Commission. He is an independent assessor for the Solar Impulse Foundation a stakeholder in the World Ocean Council and contributing to the work of the UN’s Sustainable Blue Finance Initiative. He is a registered Expert with the European Commission a member of the FTech2Zero working Group.