Kate Fleet is an economic and social historian of the Ottoman empire and the Turkish Republic, and Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (1999) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (2010), co-authored with Ebru Boyar. She has also edited together with Ebru Boyar Middle Eastern and North African Societies (2018), and Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period (2023). She is an Executive Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam Three.