Durmus Ozdemir

Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Yasar University

Durmuş Özdemir is professor at Yaşar University, where he chairs the department of Economics. He received his PhD degree in Macroeconomics from University of Leicester, England. He holds a PG degree from the University of Glasgow and BSc degree from Hacettepe University. Previously, he had worked for the Istanbul Bilgi University, University of Sussex, England, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He has been a research fellow at ERF since 2015. More than ten years of his academic life is spent in Europe. He is interested in Economic Development, Health Economics, Growth, Trade, European Economic Integration, Macroeconomics, CGE and Structural Economic Modelling. He is a member of ‘Forum Euromediterraneen des Instituts de Sciences Economiques’ (FEMISE) network and an instructor and research fellow for the ECOMOD global economic modelling group where he involved in building several country models including the model used for the peace dividend for Greece and Turkey. He is edited several conference proceedings and published number of papers, books and chapters in edited volumes in his research area. He was a Jean Monnet Module holder on European Political Economy and World Trade Organization (WTO) regional Trade Policy Instructor for Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus Countries (CEECA). He is a project Evaluator for TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). He was also an advisor to the European Parliament on the issues of trade and economic relations between Turkey and the EU.