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YAHYA SEZAŻ TEZEL, PhD. (CANTAB),
Professor of Economics,
Faculty of Political Sciences,
Ankara University.
Born
in Trabzon and finished primary school there. Attended junior high school and high school
at Ankara College of Turkish Education Society. Graduated from the economics and finance
department of the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University. Took Tripos Part II
of the economics programme of Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) and worked
there as a post-graduate student. Participated in the intern programme of the United
Nations at Geneva. Took his Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University.
Worked in the "international economics and economic development
chair" of the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University, first as research
and teaching assistant and then as assistant professor and taught topics related to
development economics and economic history in the undergraduate and post-graduate
programmes of the faculty. Taught similar courses at the Middle East Technical University.
Participated in the establishment of the Development and Social Research Centre of Ankara
University. Was granted a study mission scholarship by the OECD with which he visited
about one hundred research centres in ten European countries and studied their
structuration and functioning.
Was granted "research fellowship" by the Rockefeller Foundation
to enable him to do "advanced studies in developmental topics". With this
fellowship worked at Harvard University Institute of International Development as
"visiting scholar".
Worked as the founding director of the Graduate School for Social Sciences
and Humanities of The Middle East Technical University. During this period, continued to
teach undergraduate courses on general economic history, economic history of Turkey,
economic growth theories and graduate courses on philosophy of social sciences and
economic theory.
Worked as the chief economic advisor of the Union of Chambers of Commerce
and Industry of Turkey, during Mr. Ersin Faralyali's presidency.
Participated in the Salzburg Seminar's session on "philosophy and
public life".
Was granted a British Council scholarship with which he worked on a
research project on "relations between state, society and economy in the
civilizational tradition of the Middle East" as a "visiting scholar" in the
Middle East Centre of Cambridge University, during when he also gave lectures at
Cambridge, Oxford and Pennsylvania universities.
Earned the academic degree of University Professor and was appointed as
professor in the "international economics and economic development chair" of the
economics department of the Faculty of
Political Sciences (Ankara University).
In addition to his academic work, worked as the head of the
"department of European Community affairs" of the Ministry of Finance and
Customs and led the Turkish customs delegations at the negotiations with the EC and EFTA
in 1991-92.
As professor of economics taught undergraduate and graduate courses on
economic history and international economics at Ankara
and Bilkent Universities.
He has publications on economic history of Turkey and the Middle East,
economic growth and development, and philosophy of social sciences and history.
He
was writing a regular weekly column for the Radikal
during 1996 - 1998 and now has been writing a regular column for the Sunday Suppliment of
the Yeni Binyil.
He is participating as a founding member, in the
launching of the Balkan Political Club, emerging under the leadership of Dr. Zhelyu Zhelev, former
President of the Republic of Bulgaria.
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