Professor Aylin Seckin,

University of Ottawa, Department of Economics, Visiting Professor

Professor Aylin Seckin Georges

After graduating from Bogaziçi University Department of Economics in 1991 Aylin Seckin received her Master's degree in European Economics from Université Libre de Bruxelles with a Jean Monnet scholarship between 1991-92, and her PhD in Economics from Carleton University (Canada) in 1999. After working at Cirano Research Center, Montreal University, and Mount Allison University in Canada she returned to Turkey in the summer of 2001 and joined the Faculty of Economics at Bilgi University. Aylin Seçkin Georges has received her Professorship degree in 2015, has published many publications on the economics of art and culture and art investments in Empirical Economics, Journal of Cultural Economics, Economics Bulletin. Her studies on population aging have been published in various academic journals such as Economic Modeling. In July 2021, she published her first book The Economy of Arts from Hayalperest Publishing House. Prof. Seçkin took her sabbatical leave from Berkeley University and Ottawa Universities during the 2016-2017 academic year. Aylin Seçkin Georges, who graduated from Bilgi University Digital Marketing Master in 2021, became the founding partner of an artificial intelligence-based startup called CroMagnon Art in 2021. She decided to leave Bilgi University in September 2022, where she taught courses such as Trade Theory, Money Theory, Sports Economics, Arts and Culture Economics and Internet (Startup) Economics for 21 years to continue her academic studies in Canada. She has a broadcast series called The Economy of Everything on FluTV (a Youtube Channel).