Ayşe Buğra

Ayse Buğra is professor emerita of political economy at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. After receiving her PhD in Economics from McGill University, she has worked at Boğaziçi University. She was the founding director of the university research center Social Policy Forum between the years 2004 -20017.  

She has extensively published in Turkish, English and French on social policy, state-business relations, socio-economic history of modern Turkey and methodology of economics, receiving various awards for her academic achievements. She has also translated into Turkish Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, wrote several articles on Polanyi’s work and co-edited the book Reading Polanyi for the 21st Century: Market Economy as a Political Project.

Buğra is a member of the Science Academy Society, Turkey. She is also a member of the Advisory Council of the International Karl Polanyi Institute at Concordia University, Montreal.