Ben Ryder
Research Manager - Climate Impacts & Adaptation
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Ryder is a Research Manager focused on climate impacts and adaptation at the Wellcome Trust, bringing eight years' experience across climate policy, programme management and communications for major funders including BMGF, DFID and the EIB. With an MSc in Environment, Politics & Society from UCL and hands-on experience developing Climate Information and Early Warning Systems at UNEP, he combines policy fluency with operational delivery on climate resilience programmes. His background spans monitoring and knowledge management for infrastructure and agricultural resilience projects across Africa, where he translated technical climate science into usable guidance for funders and implementers. Comfortable with data and coding (as his GitHub bio hints), he sits at the interface of research, communications and practical adaptation programming, often turning complex evidence into actionable funding priorities.
8 years of coding experience
B.A. (Hons), Politics with International Relations, B.A. (Hons), Politics with International Relations at University of YorkUniversity College London
English, French
Github Skills (43)
sqlite10
controlling10
api10
pygame10
vue10
sql10
database10
mysql9
mariadb9
expressjs9
postgresql9
cms9
javascript9
directus9
dashboard9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ben-ryder/benryder.me
Aug 2021 - Apr 2025
The source code for my personal website, built using Directus and Astro.
Contributions:2 releases, 9 PRs, 83 pushes in 3 years 8 months
contentfulgatsbytailwindcssnextjsastro
ben-ryder/rcl
Aug 2020 - Aug 2024
A simple command line wrapper for rclone focused on easy folder syncing.
Contributions:2 releases, 12 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years
focusedrclonesyncingcli
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