Sevil Acar

Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Boğaziçi University

Sevil Acar holds a BA degree from Boğaziçi University (2000-2005), MA degree from Istanbul Technical University (2005-2007), and a PhD degree in Economics from Marmara University, Türkiye (2007-2011). Her research focuses on environmental and resource economics, particularly sustainable development indicators, climate change, and the resource curse. Awarded a Swedish Institute scholarship, she conducted doctoral research at the Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Umeå University, Sweden. She is Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) 2nd Global Assessment, the Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia Assessment and the Transformative Change Assessment. Her articles appeared in various journals including Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Ecological Economics, and Energy Policy. She also authored and co-edited three books (The Curse of Natural Resources: A Developmental Analysis in A Comparative Context; Macroeconomics of Climate Change in a Dualistic Economy; Handbook of Green Economics).