Paul Jessop acts as Chief Technology Officer for the RIAA on a secondment from IFPI, its London-based international counterpart. He heads the Technology and Standards department and oversees all the collective technical activity in the industry. He works closely with both associations' legal departments on the evolution of internet related legislation and with industry anti-piracy experts in both the online and offline worlds.
Central to the associations' leadership in the transition to internet delivery of music is the development, promotion and operation of identification schemes - International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) for tracks and the Global Release Identifier (GRid) for electronic distribution - both of which are managed by Paul's department.
Paul is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Member of both the Audio Engineering Society and the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He obtained a degree in Engineering and Computer Science at Cambridge and a post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies at Oxford.