Assoc. Prof. RECEP YORULMAZ

Recep Yorulmaz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Political Sciences, Yıldırım Beyazıt University. Between 2018 and 2022, he served as the Director of the Economic Studies Department at the Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM). He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the International Economic Policy Research Center, İktisat Halkası.

Born in Soma in 1985, he completed his secondary education there. He graduated from the Department of Public Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Afyon Kocatepe University, in 2008. In the same year, he was awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of National Education of Türkiye for postgraduate studies abroad. Following his language education at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, USA (2009–2010), he completed his master’s degree in Economics at Clemson University in South Carolina, USA (2010–2012). He then pursued and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, between 2012 and 2016.

Recep Yorulmaz is an academic with research and teaching experience in public economics, public finance, fiscal policy, and the political economy of the Middle East. His current research interests focus on Public Economics, Fiscal Policy, and Middle Eastern Economy. He has authored articles and analyses published in national and international peer-reviewed academic journals as well as in various periodicals and non-periodical publications.