Paul Castillo currently serves as General Manager of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP), where he oversees monetary policy and financial stability. With over two decades of experience, he has held several positions at the BCRP, including Manager of Monetary Operations & Financial Stability (2020-2024), Manager of Monetary Policy (2016-2020), and Deputy Manager for Monetary Policy Design (2008-2016). His expertise lies in monetary and macroprudential policy design. Recently, he led initiatives to implement retail payment interoperability and to explore the feasibility of issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in Peru. His academic work focuses on monetary policy in emerging market economies, the implications of dollarization, and the effects of macroprudential regulatory tools on credit cycles. He has published in specialized journals such as the Journal of International Money and Finance, Empirical Economics, the Journal of Macroeconomics, and the Journal of Applied Economics. He earned his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007.
