Distinguished Fellow & Retired Vice President, R&D

The Procter & Gamble Company

Biography

Paul joined Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 1988 as a PhD Microbial biochemist and spent the majority of his career leading various aspects of Skin Research, working across most of the Company’s Operating Units (as he maintains that all of them touch the human skin in some way!). He retired from P&G in 2024 as R&D Vice President.

He is a Visiting Professor to the London College of Fashion and past Visiting Professor to the UCL School of Pharmacy. He is a past Chair of the Cosmetics Europe (CE) Sun Protection Methods Task Force, leading the standardisation of SPF and UVA methods and the current Vice-Chair of the CE Sun Protection Standing Committee.

In his spare time, he re-applies his skin biology expertise to resource-poor settings and, in 2012, co-founded an NGO in Ethiopia to help the 1.5+ million sufferers of Podoconiosis (non-filarial, lower-leg lymphoedema).

He is married to Ali, has 3 grown-up children and is recently a grandfather! He loves the outdoors… running, mountains, scuba-diving and, in 2013, bought an old, run-down property on the Isle of Mull which he thinks is a small piece of Heaven.