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Dr. Ayse Kaya Orloff is a Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and an Adjunct Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her expertise is in international political economy, including international financial institutions and global environmental governance.

Her research examines multilateral economic institutions (the IMF, World Bank, and AIIB), the rise of emerging powers, global inequality, and climate finance. She is the author of Power and Global Economic Institutions (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of Global Inequality: Patterns and Explanations (Polity Press).

She holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and a BA from Wellesley College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University. As a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow, she served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State (2023–2025).

She has multiple teaching excellence awards from The Wharton School and has twice been voted by Swarthmore’s graduating class to speak at Commencement.

See publications [under Kaya only] for her books, peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and policy essays.

She also maintains a Substack blog on the global economy, Cold Takes on Hot Issues.