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Ron Ivey

Senior Principal
The Clearing Consultancy

Twitter:
ronmivey

Areas of Expertise:

Infrastructure, Innovation

Additional Areas of Expertise:

Energy Security Supply Chains

Mr. Ron Ivey is a founding principal at The Clearing Consultancy an innovation and design firm based in Washington D.C. Mr. Ivey's past and current client engagements include:

Securing of global energy supply chains: (Shell, BP, API, IPIECA, Exxon, Hess and other major oil companies): Mr. Ivey is currently designing new strategies to identify, communicate and manage security threats and environmental risk along the global oil and natural supply chains. He is a recognized expert on these supply chains, briefing senior levels of the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Energy and the National Security Council staff. His research has been used to brief the CEOs of major oil and gas corporations and the President of United States. He is currently working on a national assessment of energy transport infrastructure (pipelines, rail, marine, etc.) to understand stakeholder engagement and policy design needs.

Advancing socially responsible shale energy development: Mr. Ivey led a corporate strategy engagement with American Petroleum Institute to align all association assets(communications, advocacy, standards, policy, mobilization) around a common stakeholder engagement approach for Shale Energy development. The project focused on modeling the entire shale energy development process and addressing community values (health, water, safety, etc.) at each stage of the process.

Reducing investor risk in pre-frontier markets for natural gas: Mr. Ivey recently worked with the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations to develop and implement strategies to reduce risk for regional investors, corporations and development finance institutions investing in Afghanistan. The project team has worked with over 600 companies and was highlighted in Fast Company. Most recently Ron has been working on increasing investment in Afghanistan's nascent natural gas infrastructure.

Implementing a US energy policy: Mr. Ivey served as a consultant to the Deputy Secretary and CFO of the US Department of Energy on corporate strategy to implement energy policy and manage a $24 billion portfolio of investments. Mr. Ivey provided trend analysis from across the energy portfolio.

Previous to his consulting career, Mr. Ivey served as Legislative Assistant on energy policy for United States Senator George Allen. Mr. Ivey served as the liaison to Senate Energy and Natural Resource committee and worked on the Energy Policy Act of 2005.