Stephen Rumsey

Chairman & Managing Partner
Permian Global

Stephen Rumsey is the Chairman of Permian Global. He is a life-long environmental conservationist who grew up in West Africa. He has served on a number of boards of environmental non-profits and was Deputy Chairman/Treasurer of Birdlife International. He lives on his farm on the south coast of England where he has developed his own nature reserve over the last thirty years. Elsewhere he has been particularly involved with tropical forest projects in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia.

Professionally, he was investment manager for the Post Office Pension Fund for nine years, the biggest pension fund in the UK. He then designed and ran the debt markets business for Barclays Bank for eight years, which became Barclays Capital after he left. He built a successful business for Merrill Lynch over 6 years and set up his own asset management business (ECM) which grew from a start-up to $30 billion AUM in seven years before being sold to Wells Fargo in 2006. Stephen is a graduate of the London School of Economics.

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