Sumru Altug

Sumru Altuğ is a Research Associate at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut. She served as Professor and Chair at the Department of Economics, American University of Beirut, between 2018-2023. She has been a CEPR Research Fellow since 1997. Previously, she held chaired professor positions at the University of Durham and at the University of York in the UK between 1999–2002 and she was employed as an associate professor and full professor at Koç University between 1995-1999 and 2003-2018, respectively. In the US, she was employed as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota between 1984–1994. She has also held visiting positions at the University of Wisconsin, Duke University, VPI and SU, Central European University, City University of Hong Kong, and Kyoto University at various phases of her career. Among other positions, she served as the Director of the KU-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum in Istanbul, Turkey between 2010-2015 and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo, Egypt between 2021-2025. Sumru Altug received her BA and MA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978 and 1980, respectively, and her Ph. D. in Economics from Carnegie-Mellon in 1985. She works in the area of dynamic macroeconomics, business cycles, and structural econometrics and has published papers in top and field economics journals in her area. She has also authored five books, including two on dynamic macroeconomic analysis and asset pricing from Cambridge University Press in 2003 and 2008, respectively. She was Associate Editor at the Economic Journal between 2000-2003 and served as a member of the Politics, Economics and Geography (PEG) Research College at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK. . Among other awards, she is the recipient of the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1984 and the Science Award in the Social Sciences from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in 2017.