Berna Kirkulak-Uludag

Berna Kirkulak-Uludag is a finance professor at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Business, in Turkey, an adjunct faculty member at Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands, and a visiting professor at Southeast University in China. Currently, she is a Fulbright vising scholar at Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. She received her PhD in economics from Hokkaido University in Japan.

Her research interests lie in the areas of Chinese financial markets, environmental degradation, resource economics, sharing economy and migration. She has involved in a number of research projects including TUBITAK (Turkish Education High Council), UNESCO, ERASMUS+, and EU COST Actions. Currently, she is a Management Committee (MC) member for “China in Europe Research Network” and Working Group member for “Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” COST Action projects funded by EU. Her papers have been published in top-tier journals including Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability, Resources Policy, Applied Economics, the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, PlosOne, among others. She is also the author of the book chapter “China’s ambition in promoting green finance for the Belt and Road Initiative “(2022, forthcoming) and numerous other book chapters