Having acquired health sector development experience in the past 20 years, Paul has in recent years concentrated on policy research and practice focused on initiatives developed for mainstreaming public financial management concepts into public health towards improving alignment between functions of public finance and health financing. Paul obtained B.Sc. Hons (Accounting) from University of Lagos, Nigeria, and M.Sc. (Development Studies) from Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria. He is a Development Program Specialist possessing crosscutting competencies in public health administration, public health financing, public expenditure management, socio-economic research, community emancipation initiatives and program implementation operations. His working experiences span through development program operations anchored by various entities such as: BASICS-USAID; Association against Poverty & Ill-Health (NGO); PATHS-DFID; Support to National Malaria Control (SuNMap); Federal Ministry of Health; National Health Insurance Scheme.(NHIS); MEMS-USAID - a Monitoring & Evaluation agency; Options-UK; The African PEER Review Mechanism(APRM) facilitated by New Partnership for Africa Development(NEPAD); UNFPA;UNICEF; World Bank.