Paúl Elguezabal is a Venezuelan economist with experience in the public sector and politics. He holds an economics bachelor from UCAB (Venezuela), a Master of Public Policy at George Mason University (USA), and a Master of Development Economics at George August University Göttingen (Germany).



Currently, Paúl is an external doctoral student in Göttingen supervised by Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso at the Ibero-America Institute of Economic Researchand the Chair of Development Economics and Global Political Economy led by Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs.



He focuses his doctoral studies on evaluating migrants' regularisation programs and its impact on future migration and remittances. Also, he has worked on the relationship between migration and trade. Additionally, he is part of the research assessing the asylum requests and recognition determinants. Furthermore, he is also interested in the impact of remittances on the origin's household and the relationship between small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurship as a poverty alleviator. Paúl leads with Prof. Dr. Marcela Ibáñez-Díaz the Iberoamerican Brown Bag Seminar and also with Prof. Fuchs and Prof Ibáñez-Díaz the Göttingen Workshop on Ibero-American Development at the University of Göttingen.