Mr. Lipski is a licensed Professional Engineer with experience in failure analysis, risk based assessments, and field investigations involving metallic materials in the process/petrochemical and energy industries.
Mr. Lipski is a licensed Professional Engineer experienced in failure investigations and risk based assessments in a wide range of industrial applications. Mr. Lipski applies his expertise in metallurgical and materials engineering in field and laboratory analysis. Mr. Lipski’s experience includes investigations of various systems in and out of service, including pipelines, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, boilers, heaters/reformers, valves, gas turbines, hydropower penstocks, and storage tanks.
Before joining Secretariat, Mr. Lipski was a Project Engineer at a consulting firm where he primarily assisted clients by advising on material selection, performing equipment inspections, and conducting failure analyses, flaw characterizations, and condition assessments on static and rotating equipment across a variety of industries. Prior to this consulting role, Mr. Lipski received his Bachelors of Science in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. While at Colorado School of Mines, Mr. Lipski served as a teaching assistant for the Molecular Engineering & Materials Chemistry course and participated in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program sponsored by the US Department of Energy.
A New Perspective on Spatial Heterogeneity in African Development
Nicolas Suarez, an economist at Secretariat, together with Pascaline Dupas and Zhongyi Tang, present “A New Perspective on Spatial Heterogeneity in African Development”, which addresses the long standing debate on the effect of national institutions on development outcomes.
Assessing Material Adverse Event Clauses Amid Iran Conflict
In a recent Law360 article, Amran Nawaz and Ralph Stobwasser examine how MAE provisions are being tested amid ongoing regional disruption and the financial analysis needed to support or challenge them.
Ralph Stowasser and Tarek Bleik contributed a chapter to the GIR Europe, Middle East and Africa Investigations Review 2026, “The Convergence of Anti-corruption, Counter-fraud and Financial Integrity in the GCC: What it Means for Investigations”, examining how financial crime enforcement and investigative expectations are evolving across the region.