Poh Boon is based in Houston, Texas and joined the Institute in May 2024. He is responsible for leading our strategic direction for advocacy, supporting our Members, and growing business opportunities.  Poh Boon brings with him two decades of experience ranging across policy, regulatory, advocacy, and consulting experiences within CCS, hydrogen, regulatory, economic, and environmental matters.

Prior to joining the Institute, Poh Boon managed policy and regulatory issues for bp to advance CCS and hydrogen opportunities across the US. In this capacity, he worked closely with the regulatory & permitting, business development, projects, and external affairs teams to develop projects and advance bp’s net zero ambitions. He also managed and developed relationships with stakeholders across the entire CCS and hydrogen value-chain including with industry, federal, and state agencies, trade associations, think tanks, academic institutions, and environmental organizations. Most recently, Poh Boon led the Policy Task Group and Chapter of the 2024 National Petroleum Council (NPC) hydrogen study, Harnessing Hydrogen: A Key Element of the U.S. Energy Future, at the request of the Secretary of Energy to identify policy, regulatory, and other challenges to the use of hydrogen at scale. And in 2018-19, he was a core member of another NPC Study, Meeting the Dual Challenge – A Roadmap to At-Scale Deployment of Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage, where he led and managed several working groups, authored various sections and elements of the report and supported overall study efforts. These studies involved over 300 participants across more than 100 organizations representing diverse industry, academic, environmental non-governmental organizations, and government agencies.