Ayse Kaya (Kaya Orloff) is currently Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College (in Swarthmore, PA, USA). In 2023-2024, she is the recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Affairs Scholars and is Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State. She is also an Associate Editor at International Studies Quarterly. Additionally, she is an Adjunct Professor at the Business Economics and Public Policy Department of the Wharton School.
She is also the co-founder and current director of Swarthmore's Global Studies Program. She Chaired of the Political Science Department in AY2020-2021 and again in AY2024-2026.
She researches and teaches on globalization and international political economy, particularly multilateral economic institutions with a focus on the International Monetary Fund & the World Bank as well as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the impact of the large emerging economies (BRICS) on the multilateral system, global inequality & poverty, and the international political ramifications of the 2008 global financial crisis, and more recently global environmental governance. Her book on global economic institutions, Power and Global Economic Institutions, was published by Cambridge University Press (2015/2017). She is currently working on a book on multilateral climate finance.
In AY2019-2020, she was a Visiting Scholar at Perry World House of the University of Pennsylvania. She has also been an adjunct associate professor at the Wharton School of UPenn. Prior to Swarthmore, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Committee on Global Thought (CGT), Columbia University, where she was also a Visiting Fellow in 2012-2013.
In addition to Swarthmore, she has taught at Columbia University, the LSE, and the Wharton School. She is the recipient of multiple Teaching Excellence Awards from Wharton.
She is active in the field of International Political Economy -- she has served on award committees and mentoring programs of the American Political Science Association (APSA), has similarly served on award committees and as program chair for the International Studies Association (ISA)'s IPE section.
She has a B.A. from Wellesley College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and a M.Sc in Comparative Politics and a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics (LSE).
She was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey.
She is also the co-founder and current director of Swarthmore's Global Studies Program. She Chaired of the Political Science Department in AY2020-2021 and again in AY2024-2026.
She researches and teaches on globalization and international political economy, particularly multilateral economic institutions with a focus on the International Monetary Fund & the World Bank as well as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the impact of the large emerging economies (BRICS) on the multilateral system, global inequality & poverty, and the international political ramifications of the 2008 global financial crisis, and more recently global environmental governance. Her book on global economic institutions, Power and Global Economic Institutions, was published by Cambridge University Press (2015/2017). She is currently working on a book on multilateral climate finance.
In AY2019-2020, she was a Visiting Scholar at Perry World House of the University of Pennsylvania. She has also been an adjunct associate professor at the Wharton School of UPenn. Prior to Swarthmore, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Committee on Global Thought (CGT), Columbia University, where she was also a Visiting Fellow in 2012-2013.
In addition to Swarthmore, she has taught at Columbia University, the LSE, and the Wharton School. She is the recipient of multiple Teaching Excellence Awards from Wharton.
She is active in the field of International Political Economy -- she has served on award committees and mentoring programs of the American Political Science Association (APSA), has similarly served on award committees and as program chair for the International Studies Association (ISA)'s IPE section.
She has a B.A. from Wellesley College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and a M.Sc in Comparative Politics and a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics (LSE).
She was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey.
