CV

Structured web CV for Prof. Osman Gulseven, Associate Professor of Economics and WTO Chair at Sultan Qaboos University.

This web CV summarizes verified and user-provided profile information for Prof. Osman Gulseven. Downloadable PDF and Word versions will be added after the final CV files are uploaded.

Current position

  • Associate Professor of Economics and WTO Chair, Sultan Qaboos University.
  • Department of Natural Resource Economics, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences.
  • Location: Muscat, Oman.

Education

  • PhD in Economics or Agricultural Economics, North Carolina State University, 2008.
  • MA in Economics, North Carolina State University, 2005.
  • BS in Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, 2003.

Academic appointments

  • Current: Sultan Qaboos University.
  • Earlier public CV and profile materials in the repository refer to previous academic appointments at Middle East Technical University, Skyline University College, the American University of the Middle East, and North Carolina State University; exact titles and dates should be checked against source documents before expanded presentation.

Research interests

  • International trade, WTO membership, trade agreements, and regional integration.
  • Oman and GCC trade-policy analysis, food security, fisheries, non-tariff measures, and trade diversification.
  • Applied econometrics, agricultural economics, price transmission, consumer demand, sustainability, and resource economics.
  • Finance, inflation, gold, cryptocurrency dynamics, portfolio analysis, and financial-market risk.
  • Academic systems, research evaluation, teaching innovation, and academic research infrastructure.

Publications

Selected recent and policy-relevant publications are maintained on the generated Publications page. Publication records are data-driven from publications.yml and should not be manually expanded with unverified metadata.

Teaching

  • Graduate Econometrics and applied empirical methods.
  • International Agricultural Trade, WTO policy, TINA simulations, and policy briefs.
  • Applied Agricultural Econometrics using R, Python, Google Colab, and Quarto.
  • Agricultural Finance, insurance, risk management, and financial literacy.
  • Data visualization, quantitative methods, and student research projects.

WTO Chair and policy engagement

Academic and policy-facing work connected to WTO agreements, trade-policy capacity building, Oman-focused policy dialogue, GCC trade integration, CEPA and FTA simulations, food security, fisheries and sustainability, non-tariff measures, gravity models, curriculum development, and student engagement.

Grants, awards, and fellowships

  • WTO Chair, 2021–present.
  • Marie Curie Fellow, 2009–2013.
  • Distinguished Young Scholar, 2013.
  • College Board Member, if already present in the repository and subject to periodic verification.
  • Modeling Trade in GCC Countries, listed in repository metadata as an active internal-grant project for 2024–2026.

Technical skills

  • Programming and reproducible workflows: Python, R, Quarto, LaTeX, Beamer, Git/GitHub, Google Colab.
  • Econometrics and modeling: panel data, structural gravity, PPML, GPML, wavelet coherence, quantile regression, hedonic models, WTP analysis, portfolio analysis.
  • Communication and infrastructure: data visualization, reproducible workflows, AI-assisted academic workflows, ScholarDoc, and ScholarTeX.

Prof. Gulseven builds research and teaching infrastructure using reproducible computational tools and cautious AI-assisted development support. Prototype tools are not described as finished commercial products unless public documentation is verified.

Service and outreach

  • WTO Chair Programme at Sultan Qaboos University, framed as academic, teaching, outreach, and capacity-building engagement.
  • TINA-based International Trade teaching and simulation exercises.
  • Reproducible academic writing and LaTeX/Quarto tools.