Faculty

Before coming to Lehman College, Professor Kayaalp worked as a research associate at The Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law at Columbia University and as the senior research economist for a National Health Institute-sponsored project at the Graduate School of The City University and Downstate Medical School of The State University of New York.

Orhan Kayaalp has taught at Lehman College since 1980. He is currently Professor of Economics, Director of the B.B.A. Program, and the Department's representative to the College's Senate. He simultaneously served as the PSC-CUNY's Grievance Officer and its delegate to American Federation of Teachers. He was also Academic Coordinator of Social Science Programs at the Hiroshima Campus of The City University of New York.

Professor Kayaalp was honored with a Fulbright Research Fellowship Award; a CUNY Scholar Incentive Award; a CUNY Research Foundation Grant; a travel grant from the Italian Ministry of Education; and a fellowship to Italian National Center for Research (CNR). He was visiting professor at the National Institute of Public Finance at University of Pavia and visiting scholar at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Turin, Italy. Professor Kayaalp was awarded a Medal of Merit from Bocconi-The Commercial University of Milan for his contribution to the Italian theory of public finance. He serves as a referee for the journals of Public Finance, History of Political Economy, Journal of Behavioral Economics, and National Social Science Journal.

Professor Kayaalp's publications include 14 articles at scholarly journals. He is also the author of an internationally recognized 2004 book, The National Element in the Development of Fiscal Thought, London: Macmillan-Palgrave.