Paula Casanova
POLG Leadership Chief Operating Officer
Paula Casanova joined The POLG Foundation staff as Project Manager in September 2022. She brings to the Foundation a richly varied cultural background: childhood in Spain, boarding school in Switzerland, a degree in International Policy from New York University. Her post-graduate work has been in start-up efforts in New York and London (fashion), Iraq (fin-tech) and Moscow (skin care). Between business and family obligations, Paula has engaged in humanitarian work through foundations working in Ghana as well as Bolivia. She brings to her role within The POLG Foundation the administrative and organizational skills, as well as the professional passion, needed to support and manage the search for effective, life-sustaining research.
