Dr. Amelia U. Santos-Paulino

Dr. Amelia U. Santos‑Paulino is an economist with more than two decades of international experience in development research and policy, specializing in macroeconomic issues, trade, and investment. She currently serves as Chief of the Investment Research Section at UNCTAD, where she leads analytical work on investment and the implications for sustainable development. She has held full‑time academic and research positions at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU‑WIDER) in Helsinki, and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. She previously served as Senior Economist at the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic and Senior Advisor in the DR‑CAFTA negotiations. She has also been a visiting scholar at leading institutions including the University of California, Davis; Fudan University in Shanghai; the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva; and the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo; and Geneva Graduate Institute.

Her research is published in leading international journals such as The Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and World Development. She is the author and editor of several books published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and other major academic presses.

Dr. Santos‑Paulino holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Kent (UK), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in Santo Domingo. She has also completed executive leadership education at Harvard University.