Professor Gulcin Ozkan

Biography

Gulcin Ozkan is Vice Dean (Staffing) and Professor of Finance at King's Business School. She holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and a PhD from the University of York.

Prior to joining King's, she held academic positions at METU, Durham University and the University of York where she held a Chair during 2011-2019. She has also been the Managing Editor of the Bulletin of Economic Research since 2013.

Gulcin’s main research focuses on the intersection of macroeconomics and finance covering issues such as financial crises; financial stability; monetary and macroprudential policies; emerging markets; public debt and financial development; fiscal policy and financial constraints and the economics of constitutions.

Her recent work is on supply chain networks; Brexit; climate risk; and fiscal policy in recessions. Her book on ‘Why are presidential regimes bad for the economy? Understanding the link between forms of government and economic outcomes’, is forthcoming from Routledge in January 2022.

Gulcin supervised a large number of PhD students who are currently working for key international policy-making institutions such as the IMF, OECD and various national central banks around the globe as well as a number of academic institutions in the UK and abroad.

Are you currently accepting new PhD students?

Yes