Paola Vega Castillo

{{Short description|Costa Rican government official}}

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| office = Minister of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications

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| president = Carlos Alvarado Quesada

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| term_start1 = 1 June 2020

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| office2 = Vice Minister of Science and Technology

| term_start2 = 8 May 2018

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| nationality = Costa Rican

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| alma_mater = Technical University of Hamburg

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| country = Costa Rica

| deputy = Federico Torres Carballo

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Paola Vega Castillo is the Minister of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica.{{Cite web|date=2022-01-19|title=Ministra de Ciencia, Innovación, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones|url=https://www.micitt.go.cr/micitt/jerarcas/ministra-ciencia-innovacion-tecnologia-y-telecomunicaciones|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119114847/https://www.micitt.go.cr/micitt/jerarcas/ministra-ciencia-innovacion-tecnologia-y-telecomunicaciones|archive-date=2022-01-19|access-date=2022-01-19|website=MICITT}}{{Cite web|title=Presidencia de la República de Costa Rica|url=https://www.presidencia.go.cr/comunicados/2021/11/costa-rica-firma-memorandos-de-entendimiento-con-corea-en-temas-cientificos-gobierno-digital-y-ciberseguridad/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120085613/https://www.presidencia.go.cr/comunicados/tag/paola-vega-castillo/|archive-date=2022-01-20|access-date=2022-01-20|website=Presidencia de la República de Costa Rica|language=es}}{{Cite web|title=Paola Vega-Castillo|url=https://www.accesspartnership.com/authors/paola-vega-castillo/|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Access Partnership|language=en}} Prior to her appointment as Minister of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications in June 2020, Vega Castillo was in the same ministry as Vice Minister of Science and Technology since May 2018.{{Citation|title=Dr. Paola Vega-Castillo - Costa Rica's Minister of Science, Technology and Telecom - Bio-Economy| date=15 February 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y6qghrajbw|language=en|access-date=2022-01-20}}

Prior to her political career, Vega Castillo was a professor at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica. She obtained her doctorate at the Technical University of Hamburg in Microelectronics.{{Cite web|date=2016-09-30|title=Dra. Paola Vega Castillo|url=https://www.tec.ac.cr/dra-paola-vega-castillo|access-date=2022-01-19|website=TEC|language=es}}