A. Erinç Yeldan, Professor of Economics at Kadir Has University. He is one of the executive directors of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), New Delhi; and serves as a member-elect of the International Resource Panel of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). He is also a member-elect of the Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi) in Turkey. Dr Yeldan received his Ph.D. from University of Minnesota, USA, and joined the Department of Economics at Bilkent in 1988. During 1994/95 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota, and during 2007/2008 he was a Fulbright scholar at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at Amherst College. Dr. Yeldan’s recent work focuses on development macroeconomics, vulnerability and fragmentation of labor markets, de-industrialization, and economics of climate change, and on empirical, dynamic general equilibrium models.