NBER profile: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan.

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics and a Professor of Economics at University of Maryland, College Park. She is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Her current research focuses on measuring the globalization of European firms and banks, quantifying the linkages between real and financial sectors in a globalized economy, and investigating the effects of such linkages on economic fluctuations and development.

A native of Turkey, Kalemli-Ozcan received her B.S. in Economics from Middle East Technical University in 1995 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University in 2000. She was the Duisenberg Fellow at the European Central Bank in 2008 and held a position as lead economist/advisor for the Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank during...