Ivan Sandrea
Senior Research Adviser

Ivan Sandrea is President of Energy Intelligence Group in London. Past positions include Vice President Global Strategy and Business Development and Vice President of Strategy International Exploration & Production (E&P) at Statoil (2007-2011), head of oil supply at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Vienna), associate vice president of oil and gas for Merrill Lynch (London) and exploration and operational geologist at British Petroleum International (Venezuela, Norway, and Egypt). Mr Sandrea regularly collaborates with various international institutions in oil and gas research, and has represented OPEC in the UN in efforts to reclassify global oil and gas resources. Mr Sandrea is a senior research adviser at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (London), member of the Oslo Energy Forum (Norway), and board member of the Energy MBA program at Wirtschaftsuniversität (WU) in Vienna. He is former Board Member (3 years) of Pan Andean Resources, a Latin American focused UK listed E&P Company (acquired by Petrominerales). He holds a BS in geology from Baylor University, a MS in petroleum geology, and a MBA from Edinburgh University. Mr Sandrea was born in Venezuela.