Bengi Akbulut, is a political economist currently working as an independent researcher and a member of the Ecology Collective. She received her B.A. from Boğaziçi University (2004) and her PhD from University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2011), both in economics. She then spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester. Her work focuses broadly on the political economy of development, including issues of political ecology, agrarian and environmental change, state-society relationships, social and environmental movements, and gender and household work. Her joint and independent work has appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Economics and Development and Change among others.