Experience

CEO : Dr. Robert F. Ichord, Jr.

Dr. Ichord founded Ichord Ventures LLC in 2016 after retiring from 40 years of US government service advancing US international energy policy and programs in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Middle East and North Africa.

He designed and managed international energy cooperation and assistance projects for the US Department of Energy, US Agency for International Development, and US Department of State.

H served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Transformation in the Energy Resources Bureau of the US Department of State from 2011-2015.

He is presently a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center.

See numerous publications and blogs at www.atlanticcouncil.org (Also see separate page). especially the series on “Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Countries.”