Ayse Kaya

Ayse Kaya Orloff (LinkedIn) is a Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and an Adjunct Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She was awarded a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Affairs Scholars and served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State (2023–Jan 2025).

She researches and teaches on economic globalization and international political economy, with a focus on multilateral institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, and AIIB; the role of emerging powers (BRICS); global inequality and poverty; monetary policy; and global environmental governance.

She is the author of Power and Global Economic Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2015/2017) and co-editor of Global Inequality: Patterns and Explanations (Polity). Her work has also been published in the Journal of Politics, Review of International Organizations, International Studies Quarterly, World Development, Climatic Change, and Review of International Political Economy, among other peer-reviewed journals.  Her current book project is on multilateral climate finance.