Ivan Urlaub is an impact entrepreneur who brings over 25 years of domestic and international experience to his role as Director, Energy & Infrastructure with New Energy Economics. Serving in a fractional role, Ivan is focused on iteratively improving energy affordability, equity, and economic competitiveness. Ivan works with NEE’s growing team and expert Board members to lead programmatic strategy, helping to build out NEE’s regulatory, market, and econometric research and analysis capacity, managing projects, and providing expert testimony and analysis.
Ivan is a former SAFE Energy Security Fellow, US EPA NNEMS Fellow, recipient of multiple business journal, state-level, and non-profit clean energy awards, an Eagle Scout, and he holds Master of Public Policy and Master of Environmental Management degrees from Duke University. He is Principal and founder of Urlaub Strategies, LLC where he also helps clients devise strategic roadmaps supported with research and analysis to realize their vision in the global clean energy and climate transition.
Outside of work, Ivan is based in the Southeast and enjoys baseball, soccer, scouting, travel, and family activities.
Select relevant accomplishments include:
Founded or helped grow several national and state-level not-for-profit organizations
Advised hundreds of clean energy sector, digital infrastructure, and transmission infrastructure firms, state and local governments, not-for-profits, and large energy consumers, helping them successfully navigate energy policy challenges
Co-developed North Carolina’s first clean energy consumer adopter surveys, ratepayer bill impact analysis and reporting, and the nation’s first state-level survey of clean energy jobs and investment
Collaboratively led and supported diverse coalitions that have secured the adoption of dozens of laws and more than one hundred beneficial regulatory outcomes
Supported design and iterative improvement of inclusive utility investment programs and related financial mechanisms
Advised on energy market and policy development in 20 U.S. states