Birupaksha Paul is a professor of economics and finance at the State University of New York at Cortland. He holds an MSS in economics from Dhaka University, an MBA in finance from the University of Technology-Sydney, and a PhD in economics from Binghamton University, where he also serves as guest faculty. In 2015, he received SUNY Cortland’s Outstanding Research Award. Paul served as chief economist at Bangladesh Bank (2015-2016) and is a South-Asian counselor at Cornell University. He taught at Dhaka University and was a visiting fellow at BIDS in 2017. A pioneer in debate writing in Bangladesh, Paul won numerous accolades in debate and public speaking.