Paris started as a lawyer with New Zealand Oil & Gas in 2010 after having been a solicitor in the Bell Gully Wellington and Herbert Smith Freehills London litigation departments.
Paris has a law degree and an arts degree from Victoria University of Wellington and is admitted to the High Court of New Zealand as a Barrister and Solicitor. She is also a delegate of the University of Dundee Centre for Energy after completing the Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy course on Petroleum Agreements and a delegate of CWC’s Production Sharing Contracts-Advanced Master Class. Paris was appointed General Counsel in 2017.