Cem is an Economist/Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, a Ph.D. candidate at the Paris School of Economics and University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and a Research Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations. His research focuses on exploring productivity, migration and agglomeration nexus. In his dissertation, he studies the interaction between these elements both at macro and micro level, across three different country contexts, using restrictive social security and linked employer-employee data. Before joining the OECD, he worked as a Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Lecturer at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He was a visiting scholar at the Center of International Development (Harvard University) and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Prior to his  Ph.D., he worked as a junior economist at Global Source Partners (Istanbul office).