James Edwards
Executive Director
James Edwards leads the MSCI New York Climate Risk Center and oversees climate financial risk modeling at MSCI. In this role, he translates signals of climate-risk exposure into actionable metrics for financial use cases, with a focus on fixed income. Prior to MSCI, he worked at Moody’s Analytics, developing corporate-, sovereign- and real-estate credit models for both general and climate applications. James holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.