Cevat Giray Aksoy

I am a Lead Research Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Abdul Latif 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 Türkiye.

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

My research has been funded by the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the International Growth Centre (IGC), the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and the World Bank.

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

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