Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan

Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan is Schreiber Family Professor of Economics at Brown University and the Director of the Global Linkages Lab. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Currently, she is the co-editor of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. She also serves at the economic advisory panels of the NY Federal Reserve and the Bank of International Settlements.

Formerly, she was the Duisenberg Fellow at the European Central Bank, Lead Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank, Houblon-Norman Fellow of Bank of England, Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund and the International Fellow of Council of Foreign Relations where she is also an elected member. She is the first Turkish social scientist who has received the 2008 Marie Curie IRG prize aimed to reverse brain drain for her research on European financial integration. Her research focuses on the impact of global trade and financial linkages on economic fluctuations and growth.