Dr. Oğuz Karasu

University of Oxford

Oğuz Karasu graduated from the Department of Economics at Marmara University in 2013. He completed his master’s degree in Economics at İstanbul Ticaret University, writing his thesis on “An Analysis of Islamic Financial Instruments Following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis”. During his years working in the United States, he completed a non-thesis master’s degree in Applied Economics at George Washington University. As part of the program, he took courses at GW’s Space Policy Institute. He completed his PhD in Economics at İstanbul University in September 2023 with a dissertation entitled “The Space Industry in the United States: An Economic Impact Analysis Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods”.

Karasu worked at TRT World’s Washington, D.C. office for seven years, with responsibility for the Planning Unit. In 2022 and 2023, he also served as Vice President for Public Relations on a voluntary basis at the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C. In February 2024, he began working as a postdoctoral researcher at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he continues his research on the economic analysis of the space industry. Karasu has given presentations at various conferences in his field and has publications and interviews on related topics.