Ayşegül Şahin

Ayşegül Şahin is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Academic Advisory Council.

Şahin is the Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics at University of Texas at Austin. She is also a research associate of the NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics groups. Şahin has been serving as the editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics since January 2024. Prior to joining UT Austin’s economics department, Şahin was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she founded and led the team focused on the analysis of U.S. labor market. Şahin is an expert on macro-labor issues.

Şahin is a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office; the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Technical Advisory Committee; the Executive Committee of the CRIW; and the advisory boards of the San Francisco Fed and the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU conference.

Şahin received a bachelor’s and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and a master's degree and a PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.