Biography
Paula Menezes holds a PhD in Economics and a Master's degree in Development and International Cooperation from the Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa (ISEG-UTL). She is Head of the Financial Accounts Division of the Statistics Department of Banco de Portugal since May 2022. Previously she was Head of the External Statistics Division (2016-2022), Head of the Central Balance Sheets Division (2014-2016) and Head of the Methodological Unit (2009-2013) of the Statistics Department of Banco de Portugal. Between 2003 and 2007 she worked at the European Commission, Eurostat, in the field of public finance. Until 2003, she held management functions in the Department of National Accounts INE-Portugal, at the Service of the Institutional Sectors and at the Unit of Public Finance. She started to work in INE-Portugal in 1994. She has collaborated on cooperation projects in the field of statistics with the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund.