Dr M. Kerem Coban

Dr M. Kerem Coban is a Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at the School of Finance and Management.

He is also a Research Associate at LAGAPE, University of Lausanne. Prior to joining SOAS, he taught at Kadir Has University, Sabanci University, and Istanbul Sehir University in Turkey. Dr Coban completed his PhD in Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University, received his MA in Development Studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID), and BA in International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. ​

His single- and co-authored work have appeared in internationally recognised journals such as Administration & Society, Journal of Financial Regulation, Policy and Society, Business and Politics, Interest Groups & Advocacy, Public Administration, Review of International Political Economy, Policy Sciences, Review of Policy Research. He also has contributed to several edited volumes with single- and co-authored chapters and research encyclopedia entries. His current research focuses broadly on the regulatory policymaking process with a particular policy sectoral interest in bank/financial regulation.

• Coban, M. Kerem. 2023. The Political Economic Sources of Policy Non-design, Policy Accumulation, and Decay in Policy Capacity. Administration & Society 55(6): 1035-1065 
• Coban, M. Kerem. 2022. Rethinking De Facto Autonomy? A Multi-Policy Area Approach and the Regulatory Policy Process. Review of Policy Research. 
• Apaydin, Fulya, and M. Kerem Coban. 2023. The Political Consequences of Dependent Financialisation: Capital Flows, Crisis and the Authoritarian Turn in Turkey. Review of International Political Economy 30(3): 1046-1072 

Comparative public policy, regulatory governance, public administration, international/comparative political economy, banking and financial regulation