People
Sultan Orazbayev
- Alumni
Sultan Orazbayev joined the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2018.
Sultan is an economist working on questions related to international economics, social networks, migration and innovation. Sultan earned degrees in economics from UCL, LSE, and Simon Fraser University, with teaching experience at all three institutions. Apart from academic work, Sultan has worked as an economist at a think-tank and an endowment fund.
| Current Research/Projects | Areas of Expertise |
| Structure of Global Tourism | Scientometrics |
| Science and Structural Transformation of US Economy |
Knowledge Diffusion Migration |
| Networks |
Featured Publications
- Manchin, M. and Orazbayev, S. 2018. Social networks and the intention to migrate. World Development, 109, pp. 360-374.
- Czaika, M. and Orazbayev, S. 2018. The globalization of scientific mobility, 1970-2014. Applied Geography, 96, pp. 1-10
- Orazbayev, Sultan. “International knowledge flows and the administrative barriers to mobility.” Research Policy, 46, no. 9, Nov. 2017, pp. 1655–1665.
