He completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University. He earned his master’s degree in Economic Policy at Istanbul University with a thesis titled “The Transformation of Turkish Agricultural Policies After 2000 and a Field Study: The Case of Kırklareli.”

Between 2014 and 2016, Eğri was a visiting researcher at George Mason University. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Economics at Istanbul University with a dissertation titled “The Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings and an Attempt at Democratic Transition: The Case of Egypt.”

Eğri is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Kırklareli University. His main research areas include institutional economics, Middle Eastern economies, military-economy relations, and Islamic economics. He also serves as the Coordinator of IKAM (Research Center for Islamic Economics), operating under the ILKE Foundation for Science, Culture, and Education.