diff --git a/pyrecest/distributions/__init__.py b/pyrecest/distributions/__init__.py
index 72efac1ad..c55c778e7 100644
--- a/pyrecest/distributions/__init__.py
+++ b/pyrecest/distributions/__init__.py
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
 )
 from .circle.von_mises_distribution import VonMisesDistribution
 from .circle.wrapped_cauchy_distribution import WrappedCauchyDistribution
+from .circle.wrapped_exponential_distribution import WrappedExponentialDistribution
 from .circle.wrapped_laplace_distribution import WrappedLaplaceDistribution
 from .circle.wrapped_normal_distribution import WrappedNormalDistribution
 from .conditional.abstract_conditional_distribution import (
@@ -210,6 +211,7 @@
 VMDistribution = VonMisesDistribution
 WDDistribution = CircularDiracDistribution
 VMFDistribution = VonMisesFisherDistribution
+WEDistribution = WrappedExponentialDistribution
 
 aliases = [
     "HypertoroidalWNDistribution",
@@ -219,6 +221,7 @@
     "VMDistribution",
     "WDDistribution",
     "VMFDistribution",
+    "WEDistribution",
 ]
 
 __all__ = aliases + [
@@ -273,6 +276,7 @@
     "SineSkewedWrappedNormalDistribution",
     "VonMisesDistribution",
     "WrappedCauchyDistribution",
+    "WrappedExponentialDistribution",
     "WrappedLaplaceDistribution",
     "WrappedNormalDistribution",
     "AbstractConditionalDistribution",
diff --git a/pyrecest/distributions/circle/wrapped_exponential_distribution.py b/pyrecest/distributions/circle/wrapped_exponential_distribution.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..26c80f226
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyrecest/distributions/circle/wrapped_exponential_distribution.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# pylint: disable=no-name-in-module,no-member
+from typing import Union
+
+# pylint: disable=redefined-builtin
+from pyrecest.backend import exp, int32, int64, log, mod, ndim, pi, random
+
+from .abstract_circular_distribution import AbstractCircularDistribution
+
+
+class WrappedExponentialDistribution(AbstractCircularDistribution):
+    """Wrapped exponential distribution on the circle.
+
+    See Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka and Tomasz J. Kozubowski, "New
+    Families of Wrapped Distributions for Modeling Skew Circular Data",
+    Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Vol. 33, No. 9,
+    pp. 2059-2074, 2004.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, lambda_):
+        AbstractCircularDistribution.__init__(self)
+        assert lambda_.shape in ((1,), ())
+        assert lambda_ > 0.0
+        self.lambda_ = lambda_
+        self._normalization_const = 1.0 / (1.0 - exp(-2.0 * pi * lambda_))
+
+    def pdf(self, xs):
+        assert ndim(xs) <= 1
+        xs = mod(xs, 2.0 * pi)
+        return self.lambda_ * exp(-self.lambda_ * xs) * self._normalization_const
+
+    def trigonometric_moment(self, n):
+        return 1.0 / (1.0 - 1j * n / self.lambda_)
+
+    def sample(self, n: Union[int, int32, int64]):
+        # Use inverse CDF method: X = -ln(U)/lambda ~ Exp(lambda), then wrap
+        u = random.uniform(size=(n,))
+        return mod(-log(u) / self.lambda_, 2.0 * pi)
+
+    def entropy(self):
+        # log(exp(2*pi*lambda)) = 2*pi*lambda, avoiding redundant exp/log
+        log_beta = 2.0 * pi * self.lambda_
+        beta = exp(log_beta)
+        return 1.0 + log((beta - 1.0) / self.lambda_) - beta / (beta - 1.0) * log_beta
diff --git a/pyrecest/tests/distributions/test_wrapped_exponential_distribution.py b/pyrecest/tests/distributions/test_wrapped_exponential_distribution.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3e1a07b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyrecest/tests/distributions/test_wrapped_exponential_distribution.py
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+import unittest
+
+import numpy.testing as npt
+
+# pylint: disable=no-name-in-module,no-member
+import pyrecest.backend
+
+# pylint: disable=no-name-in-module,no-member
+from pyrecest.backend import arange, arctan, array, exp, linspace, pi
+from pyrecest.distributions.circle.wrapped_exponential_distribution import (
+    WrappedExponentialDistribution,
+)
+
+
+class WrappedExponentialDistributionTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.lambda_ = array(2.0)
+        self.we = WrappedExponentialDistribution(self.lambda_)
+
+    def test_pdf(self):
+        def pdftemp(x):
+            return sum(
+                self.lambda_ * exp(-self.lambda_ * (x + 2.0 * pi * k))
+                for k in arange(-20, 21)
+                if x + 2.0 * pi * k >= 0
+            )
+
+        for x in [0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]:
+            npt.assert_allclose(
+                self.we.pdf(array(x)), pdftemp(array(x)), rtol=5e-7
+            )
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        pyrecest.backend.__backend_name__ in ("pytorch", "jax"),
+        reason="Not supported on this backend",
+    )
+    def test_integral(self):
+        npt.assert_allclose(self.we.integrate(), 1.0, rtol=5e-7)
+        npt.assert_allclose(self.we.integrate_numerically(), 1.0, rtol=5e-7)
+        npt.assert_allclose(
+            self.we.integrate(array([0.0, pi]))
+            + self.we.integrate(array([pi, 2.0 * pi])),
+            1.0,
+            rtol=5e-7,
+        )
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        pyrecest.backend.__backend_name__ == "jax",
+        reason="Not supported on this backend",
+    )
+    def test_angular_moments(self):
+        for i in range(1, 4):
+            npt.assert_allclose(
+                self.we.trigonometric_moment(i),
+                self.we.trigonometric_moment_numerical(i),
+                rtol=5e-7,
+            )
+
+    def test_circular_mean(self):
+        npt.assert_allclose(
+            self.we.mean_direction(), float(arctan(1.0 / self.lambda_)), rtol=5e-7
+        )
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        pyrecest.backend.__backend_name__ == "jax",
+        reason="Not supported on this backend",
+    )
+    def test_entropy(self):
+        npt.assert_allclose(
+            self.we.entropy(), self.we.entropy_numerical(), rtol=5e-7
+        )
+
+    def test_periodicity(self):
+        npt.assert_allclose(
+            self.we.pdf(linspace(-2.0 * pi, 0.0, 100)),
+            self.we.pdf(linspace(0.0, 2.0 * pi, 100)),
+            rtol=5e-6,
+        )
+
+    def test_sample(self):
+        n = 100
+        s = self.we.sample(n)
+        self.assertEqual(s.shape, (n,))
+        self.assertTrue((s >= 0).all())
+        self.assertTrue((s < 2.0 * pi).all())
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()