René Klerian-Ramírez

René oversees IPA’s North American operations and is responsible for strengthening 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 is on enabling IPA clients to understand project risk and to improve the effectiveness of their capital project systems.

Before assuming his current role, René 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, René 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, René 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.

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