Paul is Tribal’s Information Consultancy Director. He is an international information management specialist with 30+ years experience. He is a chartered geologist & chartered scientist, certified GDPR practitioner, previous chair of the Information and Records Management Society; and chair of the Data Management Group of the PESGB & the Geoscience Information Group of the Geological Society. Paul is an editor of the IRMS Bulletin. He publishes extensively in the field of information and knowledge management & is author of a series of international training courses .Paul regularly runs data management workshops for the PESGB, and recently completed two tours of SE Asia, during which he training over 100 geoscientists, professional and technical staff in data & document management.