İpek İlkkaracan

Full Professor, Faculty of Management, Istanbul Technical University

İpek İlkkaracan is full-time Professor of Economics at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Faculty of Management. She served as President of the International Association for Feminist Economics IAFFE in 2021-24. Ilkkaracan is a Research Associate with the Levy Economics Institute in New York, and an Associate Editor of the Feminist Economics journal. She served as Board Member of IAFFE (2015-2017) and the Middle Eastern Economics Association (2010-2012). Ilkkaracan’s areas of research entail the care economy, gender and macroeconomics, political economy of gender, labor and development economics. Her ‘Purple Economy’ model, which depicts a gender-equal and caring economic order, was adopted as an advocacy and training tool by women’s organizations, including the European Women’s Lobby (Brussels), the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia-Pacific (Malaysia), Women for Women’s Human Rights (Türkiye). Ilkkaracan has worked as a consultant with different multilateral agencies such as the ILO, UNDP, UN Women, UN ESCWA, the IMF and the European Commission. She has developed the Gender and Economics Training Program and the Care Economy Training Program for UN Women, the Care Economy module for UNDP’s Equanomics Training Program, and the ILO-UN Women Policy Support Tool on Public Investments in Care Services Sectors.