Prof. Aysen Tanyeri-Abur

Aysen Tanyeri-Abur is Distinguished Visiting Professor and Head Advisor in International Affairs at Northeastern. A policy economist, she comes to Northeastern from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN in Rome, where she managed FAO's partnerships with the private sector and worked on mobilizing private investment in food and agriculture in UN member countries. Prior to that, she was in the Economic and Social Analysis Division at FAO from 1999 to 2003, and, from 1990 to 1999, with Texas A&M University. She has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank, USAID and the USDA/Economic Research Service.

Dr. Tanyeri-Abur has worked primarily on the analysis of economic impacts of food and agriculture policies in the US and developing countries. Her past research has focused on disaggregation of policy impacts, particularly at household level, and the use of price endogenous sector models, social accounting matrices and computable general equilibrium models in policy analysis. While at FAO, she contributed to numerous policy documents, including the State of Food Insecurity, and she co-authored the technical background document entitled " Mobilizing the political will and resources to banish hunger" for the World Food Summit:five years later. She has published in English, French and Spanish, and worked as researcher, trainer, and consultant in several countries including, Mali, Tanzania, Ecuador, Mexico, and Turkey. She has traveled extensively around the world and speaks Turkish, French, Spanish and Italian fluently. Her current research interests include impacts of US and EU food and agriculture policies on undernutrition and obesity and the challenge of balancing private and public interests in health and nutrition.

In her spare time, she enjoys testing food recipes from cuisines around the world. Passionate about conservation of local foods, she is involved in advocacy initiatives to promote regional cuisines, agrobiodiversity and healthy eating habits.

Dr. Tanyeri-Abur has a Ph. D. in agricultural economics from Texas A&M University, an M. A. in Economics and B. S. in Business Administration from The Ohio State University.