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Sevde Arpaci Ayhan Postdoctoral Fellow Foreign Policy & Global Security

Degrees
PhD in International Studies, Seoul National University, 2023

Languages Spoken
Turkish, English, Korean
Bio
Dr. Sevde Arpaci-Ayhan is a political economist whose research interests are at the intersection of international development, trade and environmental studies. She conducts econometric analysis of developmental and environmental policies to uncover their impacts on economic complexity and green innovation. Dr. Arpaci-Ayhan’s current work explores South Korea’s green innovation and the influence of Korea’s trade partners on its environmental policies. She received her PhD in international studies from Seoul National University. She previously worked as a lecturer at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul where she taught a graduate course on the quantitative research methods. She received the best paper award from the Women Caucus of the International Studies Association in 2019. She published her research at the Journal of International Development.
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