Name Coskun Aktan | ||
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Born January 25, 1963 (age 61) ( 1963-01-25 ) Fields Public Choice
Constitutional Political Economy
Institutional Economics Institutions Dokuz Eylul University
Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, USA | ||
Coşkun Can Aktan (born 1963) is an economist and a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, Turkey. He is also founder and currently Chairman of the Social Sciences Research Society (SOSRES). He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Dokuz Eylul University and began teaching there in 1986, obtaining full professorship in 1996. Aktan is a leading expert on the privatization of the Turkish economy, analyzing and writing on the movement of Turkey from a statist to a market economy from its early days, making Aktan an early and internationally known source of information on Turkey's move toward a market-based economy.
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Academic career
Coskun Can Aktan is currently a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Dokuz Eylul University. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Dokuz Eylul University. He began teaching at the Dokuz Eylul University in 1986 and was promoted to full professorship in 1992.
He worked at several international research centers and universities including the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, United States ; Economics Department of the University of California (UCLA) ; International Social Sciences Institute of the University of Edinburgh ; Institut für Allgemeine für Wirtschaftsforschung of the University of Freiburg (Germany) ; University of Vrije, Belgium and Mount Kenya University, Kenya as a visiting scholar.
Aktan's research studies were funded by the fellowships and the grants of such organizations as Higher Education Institution of Turkey, Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Institution (TÜBİTAK), Turkish Sciences Academy (TÜBA), George Mason University Foundation (United States), Earhart Foundation (United States), Soros Foundation (Hungary), British Council (UK), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (Germany), Friedrich-Naumann Foundation (Germany), Japan Foundation (Japan) etc.
He was a consultant to the Telecommunications Authority , a regulatory body in Turkey. He also served as an "Advisor to Health Minister" and contributed to the “Turkish Health Care Transition Program”.
He is currently Chairman of the Social Sciences Research Society (SOSRES), a non-governmental organization in Turkey.
Fields
Public Finance /Public Choice /Constitutional Economics /Privatization / Political Economy / Political Ethics and Political Corruption / Rules and Institutions
Selected Awards
Essay entitled "Growth and Employment Policies for Turkey", Awarded by Turkish Employers Union Confederation, 2003.
Essay entitled "Good Governance", Awarded by Turkish Quality Association (Kal-Der), 2002.
Book entitled "Social Change and Turkey", first prize, 1997 Annual Awards of Milliyet, A Turkish daily.
Book entitled "Clean Society and Clean Politics", first prize, 1993 Annual Awards of Milliyet, a Turkish daily.
Book entitled "Public Economic Enterprises and Privatization", first-prize, 1987 Annual Awards of Milliyet, a Turkish daily.
Scholarship/Fellowship
Soros Foundation, Open Society Institute. (Budapest, Hungary, 1–30 July 2006.)
Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Institution (TUBİTAK). (Tunisia. March 10–12, 2006.)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant. ( Japan Economic Policy Association, JEPA & Aichi Gakuin University.)
Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA). (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Economics Department / Visiting Scholar, 1 May- 30 June 2001.)
Friedrich Naumann Foundation Fellowship. (Albert Ludwigs University and Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg / Visiting Scholar, 1–30 July 1999.)
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Fellowship. (Albert Ludwigs University and Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg / Visiting Scholar, 1–31 August 1999.)
British Council Fellowship. (International Social Science Institute, University of Edinburgh as an Honorary Visiting Associate, 1–26 September 1998. )
Earhart Foundation Grant. (the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University. / Visiting Scholar, 1994-1995.)
Dissertation Fellowship from Higher Education Board, Turkey as well as a Supplementary Fund from the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, United States. the Center for Study of Public Choice as a Visiting Graduate Student, November 1987- May 1989.)