Mr. Paul Murphy, Founder and Managing Director,Murphy Energy & Infrastructure Consulting, LLC, will give a talk entitled "Considerations on SMRs: Technology, Project Development, Financing, and Project Delivery"

March 21, 2025

@10:10 am, 6-051, VTRC, Arlington (in-person); 440 Goodwin Hall, Blacksburg.
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Abstract

Bio
Mr. Paul Murphy is the Founder and Managing Director of Murphy Energy & Infrastructure Consulting, LLC.

Paul also serves as the Managing Director, Nuclear and Co-Head of Public Finance & Government Relations for Cross River Infrastructure Partners. He is a Senior Advisor, Power and Utilities for KPMG, specializing in the nuclear sector. Paul Murphy is also co-founder and Managing Director of Greensabre Consulting Ltd.

Paul is an Affiliate of Nuclear Economics Consulting Group. Paul is a member of the Advisory Board for the Global America Business Institute. Paul is a eight-time appointee to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce’s Civilian Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee, and he has served twice on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s SMR Working Group. Paul is also a member of the International Advisory Panel for the Centre for Strategic Energy and Resources (Singapore).

Paul currently serves on the IAEA’s Technical Cooperation Program team, which assists member states in developing nuclear power programs. Paul regularly teaches financing, contracting, and project development for the FIRST program and for the IAEA, Argonne National Laboratory, and Texas A&M University for their international training programs, and he has served as a guest lecturer at the U.S. National Defense University and at Virginia Tech. He has also taught specialized nuclear training programs on financing, contracting, project structuring, risk allocation, and SMRs for the U.S. Government and the nuclear planning authorities in Ghana, Uganda, and Ethiopia. Paul organized and co-taught a 23-part course on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy for African countries interested in developing nuclear power programs.

Paul is a graduate of Princeton University (School of Public & International Affairs) and Harvard Law School.