Paula Villegas is Assistant Research of Economics at University Loyola (Spain). She was Auditor at EY (2016-2019). Recently, she has been Advisor at Vicepresidence-Regional Ministry of Tourism, Regeneration, Justice and Local Administration at Regional Government of Junta de Andalucia (Spain) (2019-2022) and Assistant Member of the Committee of the Regions at European Union (2019-2022).
She obtained a double graduate in Law and Finance and Accounting (2017) from the University of Pablo de Olavide (Spain), a Master in Research Methods Applied to Social Sciences (2020) from the Loyola University (Spain) and PhD. Candidate in Sustainable and inclusive Development (2020-actual) from the Loyola University (Spain). Paula Villegas is a member of two research groups: Applied & Computational Macroeconomics at University Loyola and CLIMAMODEL SEJ-511 (Multisectoral Models and Climate Change) at Regional Government of Andalusia (Spain). His research focuses on computable models combine with experimental methodology for economic policy simulation about tourism and environmental economics.