Ms. Ingvild Ombudstvedt is an economist and lawyer, and the owner and founder of IOM Law. She was born and raised in Norway and has been working globally on legal issues relating to carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon capture and utilization (CCU), carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) and petroleum since 2012. She has extensive experience with capacity building, legal and regulatory gap analysis, developing and advising on regulatory framework for petroleum, CCS and CCUS globally. She works in the cross-section of law, policy, science and technology, and acts as strategic advisor to both private and public clients developing projects, business cases and value chains.

Ms. Ombudstvedt is appointed national expert and head of delegation for Norway to the ISO committee TC265, which is established to provide ISO standards for CCS and CO₂-EOR, and the European standardization committee for CCUS under CEN/TC 474. She holds a Master of Law from the University of Oslo (Norway), Faculty of Law (2011), a Master of Law from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon (USA) (Honors, 2024), and also studied Business Administration at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She is a member of the Norwegian Bar Association and the Cornelius Honor Society.

She is passionate about animal rights and nature conservation. In her spare time, she writes fiction for children, enjoys gardening and volunteers for local animal shelters, fostering and rehoming homeless, abused, and neglected cats. Not all the fostered cats moved on, and Sofie, Joey and Minsta are now permanent residents of her home.