Paul Parker
Paul Parker is the Executive Vice President of the Center for Resource
Management, a non-profit organization, which facilitates environmental
problem solving and cooperative partnerships for corporate, government,
and environmental organizations. Since joining the Center and its predecessor,
the Institute for Resource Management, in 1983, Paul has been responsible
for numerous conferences, industry/environmental agreements, and collaboration
initiatives involving, among others, the oil industry, the timber industry,
Indian tribes, the solid waste industry, the golf industry, the US Environmental
Protection Agency, and the environmental community.
Prior to his experience in the non-profit world, Paul worked in the oil
industry for Tosco Corp. in environmental and community affairs. Paul’s
experience also includes working in public policy development as the Deputy
State Planning Coordinator for Utah’s Governor, Scott Mattheson.
Paul holds a Bachelors Degree in Landscape Architecture and Environmental
Planning from Utah State University and Master of Landscape Architecture
Degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. For the
past three years Paul has served as a member of the National Petroleum
Council, a U.S. Secretary of Energy appointment.
Paul lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Colleen, and 4 children, one of which is a highly successful filmmaker.