I am the Vice Rector responsible for Research and Development and Teaching and Curriculum Development at Istanbul Bilgi University. I also serve on the board of directors of Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası (Industrial Development Bank of Türkiye). I hold a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota and an M.A. and a B.A. in economics from Boğaziçi University. 

Before BILGI, I served as chairperson of the Department of Economics and the vice director of the Graduate School of Business (GSB) at Özyeğin University. As chairperson, I oversaw an update of the undergraduate curriculum, led AACSB accreditation efforts, and faculty hiring. As vice director of GSB, I served as the academic director of the MBA and Executive MBA programs, updated curricula, contributed to AACSB accreditation efforts, and started partnerships with the Harvard Business School.

Between 2021 and 2023, I conducted research sponsored by Grant 2219-B of the Scientific and Research Council of Türkiye at Rice University and taught macroeconomics courses at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business. Between 2006 and 2015, I was a faculty member at the University of Southern California and the University of Miami, worked as a consultant at the World Bank Group, Washington D.C., (within the Development Prospects Group's Global Macroeconomics Team), and a visiting researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn.