Epress.am News from Armenia
Istanbul-born, ethnic Armenian Daron Acemoglu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics, was included in the second Top 100 Global Thinkers list issued by Foreign Policy magazine, reports News.am.
The Turkish press highlighted the fact that two Turkish citizens, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Daron Acemoglu, are included in the list. According to local media outlets, Davutoglu invited Acemoglu to Turkey. The professor said that he would be happy to strike up personal acquaintance with the Turkish FM.
Daron Acemoglu was born in 1967 in Istanbul. In 1986, he graduated from the Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. He studied at the University of York in UK and later got his PhD degree at the London School of Economics. In 2000, he was promoted to full professor at MIT. According to the IDEAS/RePec economics and finance research center, he is one of the 20 most quoted economists in the world.