Paul is responsible for the global economic coverage of the bank’s team of market economists in the world’s main financial centres, in addition to overseeing its North American economic research. He is currently based in New York and has worked for BNP Paribas since 1995. In recent years Paul has mainly focused on the major issues related to the global financial crisis, monetary policy and unconventional policy instruments, global inflation and global economic imbalances. He writes regularly for the Nikkei newspaper and is a frequent media commentator.