Paul is a DPhil candidate studying the effects of disasters (natural, political, technological) and global risks (climate change, artificial intelligence, pandemics) on physical, social, and economic wellbeing. His thesis examines the long-term effects on economic inequality and how policies can shape those effects. He is supervised by Professor Kenneth Nelson, Head of Department, and Dr. Mark Fransham, Senior Academic Fellow.
Prior to Oxford, Paul was a charity executive leading programs in justice system reform, food security, and education access. Before that, he was a policy advisor for the State of Ohio where he helped manage over $2.5 billion of annual federal funding for statewide programs supporting nearly three million people. He has also led research at the Harvard Center for Public Leadership and the Yale Institution for Social & Policy Studies.
Paul holds an M.P.A. in public policy from Harvard University, an M.A. in political science from Columbia University, and a B.A. in political philosophy from Yale University, where he was awarded University Distinction for his thesis examining the ethical implications of non-experiential policymaking. He has also led research on international policy at Victoria University in New Zealand and on community policy at Pontifical University in Peru.
