Sule Alan

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Co-Chair, Education

J-PAL Affiliated Professor

Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science

Cornell University and Bilkent University

Sule Alan is a professor of economics and behavioral science at Cornell University and Bilkent University, Turkiye. Her research interests include education, education and social policy evaluations, human and social capital formation, and gender. 

Sule received a BSc in economics from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara and a PhD in economics from McMaster University.

Sule serves as Co-Chair of J-PAL Europe's Displaced Livelihoods Initiative and Humanitarian Protection Initiative, and as Co-Chair of the European Social Inclusion Initiative. Sule has also served on the review board of J-PAL's Innovations in Government Initiative, and as a lecturer at J-PAL training events.