James A. Paul

James A. Paul (born June 10, 1941) is a writer and non-profit executive who has worked throughout his career in the field of international relations and global policy.

Paul was born in New York City and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and earned a B.A. from Harvard College in 1963. He went on to earn an M.A. at Oxford and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1975 with a specialty in comparative politics.

Between 1972 and 1976, Paul was Lecturer and then Assistant Professor of Political Science at Empire State College of the State University of New York. In 1976, he took a position with the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) as a member of the Editorial Committee of the magazine MERIP Reports (later Middle East Report). Paul later served on the MERIP Board and was appointed Executive Director of the organization in 1985. From 1989–1993, he worked full-time as a free-lance writer and consultant. Since 1993 he has served as founding Executive Director of Global Policy Forum, an organization that monitors policy-making at the United Nations.