René Klerian-Ramírez Promoted to IPA Director, North America

ASHBURN, VIRGINIA (November 15, 2024)—Independent Project Analysis (IPA), Inc. today announces that René Klerian-Ramírez has been promoted to Director of North America.

Reporting to IPA Chief Operations Officer (COO) Elizabeth Sanborn, Klerian-Ramírez will oversee IPA’s North American operations and strengthen IPA’s relationship with global and local clients in the region, including power; infrastructure; oil & gas; chemicals; consumer goods; mining, minerals, and metals; and other industries. His focus will be on enabling IPA clients to understand project risk and improving the effectiveness of their capital project systems.

Before assuming his current role, Klerian-Ramírez served as Product Development Leader of IPA’s flagship Project Evaluation System (PES®) suite of products, including the Pacesetter and Prospective project evaluations (for proactive, independent risk analysis and benchmarking) and Closeout evaluations (for retrospective lessons learned analysis and benchmarking). In this role, Klerian-Ramírez oversaw research and development efforts aimed at improving the accuracy and precision of IPA’s risk measurement and benchmarking services. In addition, he served as Client Engagement Leader (CEL) for a supermajor oil and gas company and IPA clients in the pipeline industry, as IPA’s subject matter expert for pipeline and pipeline-related project evaluations.

Throughout his IPA career, Klerian-Ramírez has applied the PES methodology to hundreds of capital projects worldwide, including many megaprojects. He has also led many system and site-based benchmarking studies.

Klerian-Ramírez holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and an MBA from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

About IPA

Founded in 1987, IPA is a benchmarking, research, and consulting organization devoted to the empirical research of capital projects and project systems. IPA improves the competitiveness of our clients through more effective use of capital in their businesses. It is our mission and unique competence to conduct research into the functioning of capital projects and project systems and to apply the results of that research to help our clients create and use capital assets more efficiently.