David V

Managing Director, IPD Latin America Co-founder, The Madrid Energy Conference David has built IPD Latin America’s client-focused services on a platform of precise and timely knowledge transfer. IPD’s core consulting methodology provides high-value analysis, based on ethically and locally collected intelligence for clients navigating highly complex investment environments. David has worked in energy and general infrastructure development with a focus on business strategy, market analysis, political and economic risk, financing, and business-to-government relations for 27 years. He is a leading expert on the Venezuelan energy industry, having resided in that country for twenty years. In 1999 he founded IPD, currently with offices in Caracas, Madrid, Mexico City, and Bogota, providing a network of consultants who advise clients on energy investment throughout the region. From his base in Madrid, Spain today, David oversees the company’s regional business, which furnishes advisory services to multi-national energy developers, oilfield service companies, foreign governments, and financial institutions. He is also a co-founder of the Madrid Energy Conference, a joint effort with the La Jolla, California based Institute of the Americas. The MEC is the first European forum for public-private sector dialogue on energy transition in Latin America. David publishes and speaks regularly on the Latin American energy industry with particular focus on legislation, regulatory and government issues impacting the day-to-day operations of the oil, gas and power industries, and scenarios for the build-out of new energy infrastructure. Prior to founding IPD, David was employed at a Washington, DC-based consulting firm advising the U.S. Government and multi-lateral banks on infrastructure investment throughout Latin America. Education Bachelor of Arts, Boston College, 1991 Major: Political Science