Paul joined Scriptoria in 2016 following ten years of working as a freelance writer, researcher and editor – primarily for agricultural organisations such as the centres that make up the CGIAR, the Crop Trust and the Future Agricultures Consortium.

Paul holds an MSc in Anthropology and the Ecology of Development, for which he carried out fieldwork on post-conflict farming in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has also co-authored a book on disasters, and written articles for a variety of popular and academic publications.