Ron Ivey

Managing Director, Humanity 2.0 Institute

Ron Ivey is the Managing Director of the Humanity 2.0 Institute, a Research Fellow with the Human Flourishing Program at the Harvard Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences, and the Founder and CEO of Rembrandt Collective.

As a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, he co-chairs the interdisciplinary Trust and Belonging Initiative, which is dedicated to understanding and reversing declines in social trust, solidarity, and connectedness. His work includes designing and co-facilitating the Building Connected Communities Conference, serving as a platform for dialogue and action among policymakers, scholars, and researchers to address the systemic drivers of social isolation and community breakdown. His writings on trust, belonging, and human flourishing have been featured in prominent academic and policy publications, including Frontiers in Public Health, American Affairs, and The New Statesman.

At the Humanity 2.0 Institute, Ron oversees a global research consortium that aims to create shared frameworks for assessing human well-being and social impact. This initiative seeks to align technology and business practices with global insights on human flourishing. In this capacity, Ron is responsible for organizing and facilitating the Human Flourishing Forum, which takes place at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences within Vatican City.

Ron is also a Fellow at the Centre for Public Impact, where he contributes to rethinking governance and rebuilding trust between governments and citizens. Here, he co-authored “Built for All,” a global framework for building inclusive economies that promote human flourishing.

In 2017, he founded the consultancy Rembrandt Collective to guide corporations and philanthropic organizations in enhancing their social impact. His past advisory clients have included Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Vatican, IBM, the World Bank, the White House Office of Management and Budget, and the Aspen Institute. Before founding his consultancy, he served as a policy advisor in the United States Senate.

Ron is a member of advisory boards such as the OECD’s Trust in Business Initiative and the Executive Advisory Group of the OECD’s Blue Dot Network, which focuses on sustainable infrastructure. He is also a founding member of Friends of Notre Dame de Paris, a U.S.-based foundation that has significantly contributed to the restoration of the cathedral, raising over $50 million in private funds.