Paul Barshop

Paul is responsible for collaborating across regions, business areas, and product areas, leading IPA to adopt bold approaches to helping clients solve their sustainability challenges. He works with clients to understand their vision of carbon management and provides leadership on IPA’s research and development efforts to provide strategies and measurable performance indicators for sustainability and carbon reduction on capital projects.

Since joining IPA in 1994, Paul has held many leadership roles, both corporate and across the globe from the US to Europe and Asia. These roles included directing operations regionally and providing hands-on support to clients implementing changes to their capital project development and delivery systems. In all his residencies, Paul has worked with local companies to support their transformation efforts to deliver more value from their projects. In his current role, he continues that success with a lens on sustainability and carbon management Best Practices.

Paul previously served as Director, Asia-Pacific, focusing on further establishing IPA as the go-to organization for expertise on executing capital projects across the region. He oversaw client engagement throughout the Asia-Pacific region and managed IPA’s Singapore and Melbourne, Australia, offices.

Paul served as Director of IPA Capital Solutions from 2015 to 2018, providing hands-on support to clients implementing changes to their capital project development and delivery systems to improve performance. During this time, Paul authored, Capital Projects: What Every Executive Needs to Know to Avoid Costly Mistakes and Make Major Investments Pay Off, a real-world framework to help business executives drive capital project success. Paul was IPA’s Chief Operating Officer from 2004 to 2015. He previously served as Director of IPA’s Netherlands office from 2000 to 2004, working with European and Middle Eastern clients. Paul joined IPA in 1994.

Paul holds an M.S. in Business Administration from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.