Cevat Giray is Associate Director of Research in the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and Associate Professor of Economics at King's College London, Department of Political Economy.

He is also a co-founder of Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), which is the largest cross-country survey to collect detailed information on workers’ experiences and attitudes regarding remote work arrangements.

His research has been funded by King’s College London, the British Academy, and the World Bank. He mainly works on economic inclusion, forced migration, the political economy of trust and economic implications of working from home.

His research has been covered by over 100 media outlets, including BBC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Mirror, Reuters, The Daily Mail, The Economist, The Independent, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Times, Quartz, Vox, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and World Economic Forum.

Cevat Giray joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in October 2017 and became a Research Fellow in December 2023.