Dr. Sevcan Yesiltas is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at Koç University, and Associate Director of the Koç University-ESAS Center for Alternative Investments. Currently, she also works as a researcher for the Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum. She received her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University in 2006, and her master’s degree in Economics from Bilkent University in 2009, and then her Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University in 2016. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a consultant for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and the World Bank. She received grants and honorarium for her research from the NBER, and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Her research in the areas of Applied Macro-Finance, International Finance, and Corporate Finance has been published in leading international journals such as the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics and the Journal of International Economics, among others. She is a recipient of the Turkish Academy of Sciences’ Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2023), Science Academy’s (Turkey) Young Scientist Award (2024).