Dr. Joe Yackley is a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department of State, currently serving in Ankara, Turkey.
Joe received his PhD from NELC in 2013. Between 2002 and 2012, he was a Senior Editor with the Oxford Business Group, based in Berlin, Bucharest, Istanbul, Beirut, and Damascus.
Joe spent 2010 in Cairo and Istanbul on a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, researching his dissertation, a comparative political economy of the Ottoman and Egyptian bankruptcies of the 1870s.
He is a co-author of the 2011 book, Risk Rules: How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy.
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