Sevin Yeltekin

Sevin Yeltekin oversees the administrative and academic functions of the Simon Business School, shapes the school’s vision and priorities, and serves as the leading advocate for its faculty, programs, and students to alumni, the business community, and other external constituencies.

Before joining University of Rochester in July 2020, she was a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business from 2005-2020. She also held the Rohet Tolani Distinguished Professorship and served as the Senior Associate Dean of Education from 2017-2020. Prior to Tepper, she was a faculty member at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.  

Dean Yeltekin is a highly respected macroeconomics scholar, she is well-known for her research that spans fiscal policy design, social insurance design, computational economics and asset pricing implications of macro policy. She received her bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College, and master’s and PhD degrees in economics from Stanford University.

Dean Yeltekin has been a member of the advisory board for the Carnegie Rochester NYU Series on Public Policy since 2012. This series hosts semi-annual events at each university on a rotating basis, fostering the exchange of scientific ideas among analysts with varying approaches and enhancing academic economists' understanding of practitioners' environments. She has served as an associate editor of multiple academic journals including Quantitative Economics, Operations Research, Journal of Monetary Economics and Macroeconomic Dynamics. She is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Markets Radio and US News as an expert on macroeconomic trends and policy.