Sevin Yeltekin

Şevin Yeltekin is the dean of the George Washington University School of Business and a professor of finance. A distinguished economist and academic leader, Yeltekin brings to GW a commitment to innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and preparing students for leadership in a rapidly evolving global economy.

Prior to joining GW in August 2025, Yeltekin served as the dean of the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester and the Frontier Communications/Rochester Telephone Professor of Business Administration and Economics. During her tenure, she led the development of the Simon 2025 strategic plan, prioritized investment in research and faculty recruitment, and oversaw the creation of forward-looking academic programs—including MS degrees in Business Analytics & Applied AI, and AI in Business. She launched a comprehensive generative AI initiative to embed AI education across the curriculum and forged new interdisciplinary partnerships with engineering, the arts and sciences, and the school of medicine. Her leadership elevated Simon’s national visibility as an innovator in business education.

Before Rochester, Yeltekin was the Rohet Tolani Distinguished Professor of Economics and senior associate dean of education at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. There, she spearheaded the launch of new graduate and undergraduate programs, led Tepper’s five-year reaccreditation process, and secured STEM designation for its MBA and PhD programs. Earlier in her career, she was a faculty member at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Yeltekin is a recognized expert in macroeconomics. Her research spans fiscal policy design, social insurance, computational methods, and the asset pricing implications of macroeconomic policy. She is review editor for Frontiers in Blockchain, an advisory board member of the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference Series on Public Policy, and vice president of the Society for Economic Measurement. She has also served on the editorial boards of Operations Research, Journal of Monetary Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Quantitative Economics.

Yeltekin holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Stanford University, a B.A. with honors in Economics and Mathematics from Wellesley College and is a member of the American Economic Association and the Macro Finance Society.