About

I am an Associate Director of Research, Lead Research Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, Associate Professor of Economics at King’s College London, Department of Political Economy, a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin.  

Since April 2025, I have been serving as a Policy Adviser to the House of Lords, contributing to the development of the UK’s legal framework and policy approach to remote work and the future of labour markets. I also write monthly columns for Bloomberg Businessweek Turkiye.

I am a co-founder of Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), the largest cross-country survey that collects detailed information on workers’ experiences and attitudes toward remote work arrangements.

My research has been funded by the British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), International Growth Centre (IGC), King’s College London, and the World Bank. I mainly work on economic inclusion, forced migration, the political economy of trust and economic implications of working from home. 

My research has been covered by over 100 media outlets, including BBC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Mirror, Reuters, The Daily Mail, The Economist, The Independent, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Times, Quartz, Vox, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and World Economic Forum.

In 2017, I completed my PhD in Economics at University of London, Royal Holloway College. I was a visiting researcher at Stanford University, Economics Department in Fall, 2022. I am the recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the Association of British Turkish Academics and was selected as a Leader of Tomorrow by The St. Gallen Foundation. 

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E-mail: aksoyc@ebrd.com & cevat.aksoy@kcl.ac.uk