Mehmet Asutay is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy & Finance at the Department of Finance, Durham University Business School; the Director of the Durham Centre for Islamic Economics and Finance, and the programme director for the MSc Islamic Finance programme.

Mehmet’s teaching, research, publications, and research supervision focus on Islamic moral economy/Islamic economics, Islamic political economy, Islamic finance and banking, Islamic governance and management, Islamic social welfare institutions, and Middle Eastern political economies. 

His articles on his research interests 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. 

Mehmet has served as a consultant to COMCEC (a part of the OIC), CIBAFI, and UNDP-IICPSD on various projects, and he was also a member of the Board of Directors of Albaraka Turk Participation Bank from 2018 to 2020. He was the Honorary Treasurer of BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) and its journal British Journal of Middle East Studies from 2009 to 2019.

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. He is also a Board Member of the International Association for Islamic Economics.

Mehmet is the 2024 Laureate of IsDB (Islamic Development Bank) Prize for Impactful Achievement in Islamic Economics for recognition of his novel work on Islamic moral economy and the articulation of Islamic finance to be supportive of sustainable development and the welfare of human beings.

Durham University Profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/business/our-people/mehmet-asutay/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=e6ZHO-cAAAAJ&hl=en

Email: mehmet.asutay@durham.ac.uk