2021- International Fellow, British Academy.
2019: Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies of the British Kuwait Friendship Society, for Uneven Centuries, Economic Development of Turkey since 1820, for the best book published in 2018 in Middle Eastern Studies.
2018: Keynote Lecture: “Globalization and Economic History”, XVIII World Economic History Congress, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August.
2018: Kadir Has Prize given by Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey for Outstanding Achievement in Science and Education
2012–2015: Editor, European Review of Economic History, Oxford University Press.
2012-2014: President, Asian Historical Economics Society, association for the economic history of Asia.
2012- Research Fellow, Economic History Programme, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
2012- Member, Academia Europae.
2011- Member and Foreign Secretary (2011-2016), Science Academy, Turkey.
2005-2007: Member, Executive Council, Academy of Sciences of Turkey
1999-2011: Member, Academy of Sciences of Turkey (resigned in 2011).
1994-1999: Associate Member, Academy of Sciences of Turkey
2006- Research Fellow, Economic Research Forum (for Middle East and North Africa), Cairo
2003-2005: President, European Historical Economics Society, association of European economic historians.
2003: Member, Outside Evaluation Team, Economic Research Forum, Cairo.
2002: Thomas H. Cole Prize of the American Economic History Association for the best article to appear in The Journal of Economic History during 2001-2002 (“Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914”)
2002: Fuat Köprülü Award of the Turkish Studies Association of North America for the best book published in Ottoman and Turkish Studies during 2000-2001 (A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire).
2001- Runner-Up, Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) (A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire).
2000-2004: Deputy-Rector for Academic Affairs (Provost), Bogaziçi (Bosphorus) University, Istanbul.
1998-2001 and 2013-2017: Director, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogaziçi University
1998-2006: Member, Executive Committee, International Economic History Association.
1999-2002: Member, Standing Committee on the Humanities, European Science Foundation.
1999: Sedat Simavi Award of the Turkish Journalists’ Association for the best study in Social Sciences published in 1999 (Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Paranın Tarihi/A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire).
1996-2003: Member and Deputy Chair, Board of Directors, Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey, Istanbul.
1993-2000: Director, Historical Statistics Project,
State Institute of Statistics of Turkey, Ankara; published 8 volumes historical statistics.
1992-1996: Member, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East, Social Science Research Council (US) and The American Council of Learned Societies.
1992: Mustafa Parlar Research Achievement Award for Young Social Scientists, Ankara for publications in Ottoman-Turkish economic history.
September 2014: Organizer, Fourth Biennial Conference of the Asian Historical Economics Society, Istanbul.
2008-2012: Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Economic History, published by Cambridge University Press.
2009–2012: Member, Editorial Board, Economic History of Developing Regions.
1997-2012: Member, Editorial Board, European Review of Economic History, published by Cambridge University Press.
2003-2007: Member, Board of Trustees, European Historical Economics Society, association of European economic historians.
2006: Global Economic History Network (GEHN) Research Fellowship, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
September 2005, Organizer, Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Istanbul.
2000- Global Price and Income History Group, Member, Steering Committee, international research project funded by the US National Science Foundation.
2000-2001: Director, Center for European Studies, Boğaziçi University
2000-2008: Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Turkish Studies, published at the University of Wisconsin.
2006- Member, Editorial Board, Global Economic History Series, Brill Publishers.
1996-1999: Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Middle East Studies, published by Cambridge University Press.
1987- Co-founder and Member, Editorial Board, New Perspectives on Turkey, an academic journal of social science and history published in English at Istanbul.
1993-1999 Editor, New Perspectives on Turkey, an academic journal of social science and history.
1986-87: Post-doctoral Research Fellowship by the Social Science Research Council, New York for the project : “War, Economy and Society in Turkey, 1939-1945”.