Dr. Orhan Kayaalp is a 35-year veteran in academia. He began his career as Professor of Economics and Management at Lehman College/CUNY. He has pioneered many highly successful undergraduate and graduate programs in business and economics at Lehman, including several exchange programs with institutions abroad. He led all of those programs as director and later on as the Chairman of Lehman’s Department of Economics and Management, a position he held until 2013.
Dr. Kayaalp also served as an Academic Coordinator of Social Science Programs at the Hiroshima Campus of The City University of New York, as a Research Associate at The Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law at Columbia University, and as Senior Economist for a National Health Institute-sponsored project conducted simultaneously at the Graduate School of The City University and Downstate Medical School of The State University of New York.
Dr. Kayaalp’s honors and awards are numerous, including a Fulbright Research Fellowship Award to Italy, a fellowship from the Italian National Center for Research (CNR), and prestigious visiting professorships at the Italian National Institute of Public Finance, University of Pavia, and at the Italian National Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Turin. Dr. Kayaalp was also awarded the Medal of Merit from Bocconi-The Commercial University of Milan and the National Merit Award from the University of Ferrara, both in recognition of his substantial contribution to the Italian theory of public finance.
The author of the internationally recognized and frequently cited book, The National Element in the Development of Fiscal Thought (London: Macmillan-Palgrave, 2004), Dr. Kayaalp has also presented dozens of papers at foremost national and international conferences, and his articles and book chapters have appeared in numerous academic journals and anthologies.
Dr. Kayaalp holds a Ph.D., MA, and MPhil in Economics from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. In addition, he holds aMBA in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, and a BA from the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, Turkey.