Bio

Eren Inci is a professor of economics at Sabanci University. He completed his undergraduate education in Management Engineering at Istanbul Technical University in 2002. He received his MA in Economics from Boston College in 2004 and his PhD in Economics in 2007. His research spans the fields of Urban Economics and Transportation Economics, aiming to enhance the livability and sustainability of cities. His work, particularly focused on the economic analysis of parking spaces, has contributed to the interdisciplinary study of traffic congestion and parking in cities. He has authored influential works on the development and analysis of urban parking policies. In 2014, he was awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist Award (TUBA-GEBIP) by the Turkish Academy of Sciences and the Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) by the Science Academy. In 2018, he received the TUBITAK Incentive Award. He served as the Vice Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University between 2017 and 2024. He was an executive committee member of the International Transportation Economics Association from 2016 to 2024. He has held visiting roles at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), University of California, Riverside, University of British Columbia, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.