Brad Ives is the Executive Director of the Institute for Energy Innovation at Louisiana State University. Prior to joining LSU in 2023, Mr. Ives led Catawba College to become the first certified carbon-neutral college in the Southeast as Executive Director of its Center for the Environment. He also served as Chief Sustainability Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor at the University of North Carolina and as North Carolina’s Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources where he drove policy resulting in the state’s first wind farm.

Mr. Ives began his career as a finance lawyer on Wall Street where he worked on Louisiana’s only hydroelectric power plant. He later moved to institutional money management working on an early clean technology venture capital fund and spending four years in London.

After returning to the U.S., Mr. Ives developed an award-winning landfill gas project to supply renewable energy to ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant. Mr. Ives also led a biomass energy technology company and worked in energy storage and solar power sectors.

Mr. Ives holds the Sustainability and Climate Risk Certificate from the Global Association of Risk Professionals, is a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional and is the recipient of the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association’s Individual Energy Leader Award. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Law degrees from the University of North Carolina where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.