Ivan is a co-founder of Offset8, an emissions investment and management group founded in Abu Dhabi, with a team presence in Tokyo. At COP28, Offset8 announced the Middle East’s first carbon credit fund to finance nature-based solutions across Africa and Southeast Asia. Ivan began his career at Goldman Sachs and Mubadala and later lived in Zimbabwe and Kazakhstan, where he advised UAE-based institutions on investments in Africa and Central Asia.