Author: Pinar Cakiroglu
Bio: Pinar Cakiroglu is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of History and Archeology in the University of Crete. She graduated from the Middle East Technical University (B.Sc. in Economics) in Turkey and completed her graduate studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (M.Sc. in Development Economics, Ph.D. in Economics). She has worked on the transformation of Salonica region on the face of the changing global economy following the industrial revolution. She has worked in the METU, SOAS-University of London and University of Erciyes as teaching staff. 

Her research interests are economic and social history, political economy, long-term growth and development, industrialisation and the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East. 

Source: [Anglo-Turkish Society](https://www.angloturkishsociety.org.uk/doc/Costas-Lapavitsas+Pinar-Cakiroglu-lecture.pdf)