Sevket Pamuk is Professor of Economics and Economic History at Bogazici UEniversitesi, Istanbul. He is the author of many books and journal articles on Ottoman, Middle East and European economic history, most recently of Uneven Centuries: Economic History of Turkey since 1820 (2018). He was Professor and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2008 to 2013. Pamuk was President of the European Historical Economics Society, President of the Asian Historical Economics Society, Editor of the European Economic History Review and is a member of Academia Europea and Science Academy, Turkey.