Entrepreneur, investor, soldier and scholar, Paul is a Life Director of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, having served as IONS' chairman from 1983 until 1999. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, after serving in World War II he launched his career with the Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro lawfirm. He became corporate counsel for Celanese Corporation and ultimately became the President of Esso/ Spain. Thereafter, he became an executive in a number of entrepreneurial firms in the natural resource industry. He is President of Three Swallows Foundation, and a co-founder of the biennial Temple Award for Creative Altruism. At Oxford Paul served as Honorary Sponsor for Christianity at the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders for Human Survival; master of ceremonies at the US-USSR Citizens Summit in Alexandria, VA in 1988, and in Moscow in 1990. He is also a member of the board of advisors of the Interfaith Conference.