Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan is an economist and the Schreiber Family Professor of Economics at Brown University.
[8] From 2010 to 2011 she was an advisor to the World Bank as Lead Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region.
[7] In 2015, she became the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Maryland.
In a 2008 paper with Laura Alfaro and Vadym Volosovych, she found that the quality of institutions were one of the main reasons.
[11] Her research has been featured in The New York Times,[12] The Economist,[13] Reuters,[14] NPR,[15] Bloomberg,[16] and the Washington Post.