Paul-Alain Beaulieu is a Canadian Assyriologist, a Professor of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.Beaulieu earned a master's degree from the Université de Montréal in 1980 under the supervision of Marcel Leibovici, and a Ph.D.
from Yale University in 1985.
He was an assistant and subsequently associate professor at Harvard University before joining the faculty at Toronto.