Mehmet Asutay is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy & Finance at the Durham University Business School, and the Director of the Durham Centre in Islamic Economics and Finance.
Mehmet’s teaching, research, publication, and supervision of research is all in Islamic moral economy/Islamic economics, Islamic political economy, Islamic finance and banking, Islamic governance and management and the Middle Eastern political economies.
His articles on his research interest have appeared in various international academic journals and professional magazines. He has also published manuscripts and edited books on aspects of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance, the latest of which are: A Model for Islamic Development: An Approach in Islamic Moral Economy (with S. Jan, 2019), Mapping the Risks and Risk Management Practices in Islamic Banking (with W. Eid, 2019).
Mehmet's recent research includes the construction of Islamic moral economy and Islamic political economy; and their articulation in economic and sustainable development. In addition, his research focused on locating Islamic banking and finance within the expressed ideals of Islamic moral economy by essentialising sharing and collaborative economy nature of Islamic finance. Mehmet is also involved in empirical research in various aspects and dynamics of Islamic banking and finance as well as examining the political economy determinants and consequences of various Islamic finance industry development models.
Mehmet has acted as consultant to COMCEC (part of OIC), CIBAFI and UNDP-IICPSD on various projects, who was also a member of Board of Directors of Albaraka Turk Islamic Bank from 2018-2020.
Mehmet is the Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Islam and Society, the International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance Studies, and the Review of Islamic Economics. Mehmet is also a Board Member of the International Association for Islamic Economics.
His profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/business/our-people/mehmet-asutay/

He was born in 1968 in Gümüşhane. He graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Law (1992). He became a research assistant at Atatürk University Erzincan Faculty of Law (1993). He received his master's degree from Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences Public Law Programme with the thesis titled ‘Two Dimensions of the Contemporary State: Emancipation and Privatisation’ at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences Public Law Programme (1994) and completed his master's degree with the thesis titled “Political Participation in Turkey within the Framework of the 1982 Constitution” (1998). In 2004, he became an associate professor and in 2009 he became a professor. He focused his studies on State Theory and Human Rights. He published books titled Feodaliteden Küreselleşmeye Ekonomik İktidar Siyasal İktidar İlişkisi (Seçkin Yayınları, 2003) and Sanayi Devriminden Küreselleşmeye Sosyal Haklar (Oniki Levha Yayınları, 2009). Globalisation and Turkey: The Development of the State in Turkey (Seçkin Y., 2007) and General Public Law (M. Akad/B. Dinçkol, Der Y., 2011). He has articles published in various journals. In 2011, he joined Istanbul Şehir University Faculty of Law.