Tansu Çiller Tansu Çiller Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist, and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's only female prime minister. As the leader of the True Path Party, she went on to concurrently serve as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1996 and 1997. As a Professor of Economics, Çiller was appointed as Minister of State with responsibility for the economy by Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel in 1991. When Demirel was elected as President in 1993, Çiller was
Joseph Francois (economist) modeling) as well as the role of regional agreements and the multilateral system in reducing economic policy uncertainty. He also writes on current international economic policy. He was an economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1983-87. He then moved to the US International Trade Commission, where from 1987-1993 he started as a research economist and later became Chief of Research, and then Acting Director of Economics with the USITC. While at the USITC he was co-director of the 1992 USITC assessment of the NAFTA, He was a research economist with the GATT/WTO from 1993-1996, where he coordinated