Paul Jessop is Director of Technology at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry 
(IFPI). He is responsible for technical programmes in support of the protection and exploitation of the 
recording industries rights.

He is Project Manager of the MUSE Project, which is funded jointly by the recording industry and the 
European Commission. The project aims, amongst other things, to recommend a preferred system for 
hiding data in sound recordings. His other projects include anti-piracy, digital identifiers, on-line 
protection and the development of the DVD standard, where he has taken a particular interest in 
navigation and optional coding schemes. He also works with colleagues from IFPI, the Recording 
industry Association of America and the record companies to lobby for protection of rights in the 
information society.

Paul has been an AES member since 1996 and is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 
and the British Computer Society. He has an MA in Engineering and Computer Science from 
Cambridge University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management obtained at Oxford University.