Future of Financial Markets 2018

Prof. Dr. Vikas Agarwal

Chair Professor of Finance,
Georgia State University

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Doç. Dr. Yiğit Atılgan

Faculty Member, Sabancı University

Associate Professor Atılgan received his BA in Management from Boğaziçi University in 2003, his MS in Finance from University of Rochester in 2005 and his PhD in Finance from City University of New York in 2010. In the same year, he joined Sabanci University School of Management as an Assistant Professor. In 2015, he earned the tittle of Associate professor.

Professor Atılgan's research interests include determinants of equity returns, derivative markets, fixed-income instruments and asset pricing in emerging markets. His research has been published in prestigious academic journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and Journal of Business & Economic Statistics among others. He has also co-authored a book on risks and returns of investing in hedge funds published by Academic Press (Elsevier).

Professor Atılgan teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on investments, portfolio theory, fixed-income analytics, financial management and corporate valuation. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Doç. Dr. Evrim Akdoğu

Faculty Member,
Sabancı University

Dr. Akdoğu is an Associate Professor of Finance at the School of Management at Sabancı University. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Linfield College in Oregon in 1997, with a double major in mathematics and international business, followed by a Ph.D. degree in finance from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003. After finishing her doctoral studies, she started her career as an Assistant Professor of Finance in Southern Methodist University in the U.S. In 2008, she decided to continue her academic career in Turkey and joined Koç University. Since 2012, she has been a member of School of Management in Sabancı University. She is currently teaching Principles of Finance and Corporate Finance at both undergraduate and post-graduate programs.

Dr. Akdoğu has a number of theoretical and empirical scholarly publications on corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and corporate investments. These studies have been published in internationally recognized high quality journals including Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of Corporate Finance.

Alex Batlin

Founder & CEO,
Trustology

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Hakan Binbaşgil

CEO,
Akbank

Hakan Binbaşgil joined Akbank as the Executive Vice President in charge of Change Management in October 2002. He initiated the Bank's "Restructuring Programme" which has transformed Akbank into one of Turkey's most customer-focused, modern and innovative financial institutions. Hakan Binbaşgil was appointed Executive Vice President in charge of Retail Banking in November 2003, Deputy CEO in May 2008, and since January 2012 as Board Member and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank.
Prior to joining Akbank, Binbaşgil worked as a Management Consultant in the London and Istanbul offices of Accenture, and as Executive Vice President in a different private sector bank. Binbaşgil also served on the boards of directors of numerous companies domestically and abroad.

After graduating from Robert College, Hakan Binbaşgil graduated from Bosphorus University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Binbaşgil also holds MBA and MS degrees in Finance from Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, USA.

Prof. Dr. Özgür Demirtaş

Chair Professor of Finance,
Sabancı University

Ozgur Demirtas was born in Ankara, Turkey. He got his BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University in 1998. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Finance from Boston College in 2003. In the same year, he was appointed as a tenure track Assistant Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York. In 2004, he was elected as the best instructor within the Finance Department of the college. In 2005, he was elected as the best instructor within all the departments of the business school. In 2007, he was awarded with one of the prestigious medals of the University: The Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence. He earned a tenured Associate Professor position in the same year. In 2010, he was ranked within the top 20 list among more than one million professors evaluated by 10 million students in USA, Canada, England, and Scotland. He also taught classes at the New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business and he earned the highest evaluations in the finance department.

His academic work has been published in various academic journals. He published more than 35 academic articles in leading journals such as Management Science, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. He also published a book about hedge funds by Academic Press. His research has been rewarded by the City University of New York for six consecutive years. In 2012, he joined Sabanci University as a Chair Professor of Finance and achieved to be Marie-Curie Research fellow.

Prof. Ozgur Demirtas is a Founding Chairman of the Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) at Sabanci University. He is a Board Member of Akbank, one of the leading banks of Turkey. He was also a Founding Board member of Turkey’s first Financial Literacy and Savings Association (FODER). He has been a consultant for several business organizations. He frequently acts as a chief advisor to large corporations and conglomerates. He develops risk management software for the insurance industry. He is one of the leading keynote speakers to leading corporations and he joins think tank organizations with leading policymakers to emphasize the importance of economic and financial development. He is also an angel investor particularly interested in biotech sector.

Suzan Sabancı

Chairman,
Akbank

Suzan Sabancı is the Chairman of Akbank. Ms. Sabancı is also a board member of Sabancı Holding and a member of the Board of Trustees of Sabancı University and the Sabancı Foundation. In 2009, Ms Sabanci founded the Akbank International Advisory Board and currently serves as its chairman.

Suzan Sabancı began her career in banking in 1986 and joined Akbank as Executive Vice President in charge of Treasury in 1989. Having specialized in Treasury and Risk Management, she has been active in these two subjects since 1993. In 1997, she was named Executive Board Member for Treasury and International Banking Relations. Ms Sabancı was appointed as Executive Board Member to oversee the bank-wide change and transition program in 2001. She was named Chairman in March, 2008.

Ms. Sabancı is a member of the Institute of International Finance Board of Directors and Emerging Markets Advisory Board, Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council, Harvard Business School’s Global Leaders Circle, and an emeritus member of the Harvard Business School’s Middle East and North Africa Advisory Board. Suzan Sabancı is also co-chair of the New York-based American-Turkish Society, as well as a member of the Global Board of Advisors at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Board of Managing Directors of Venetian Heritage, Inc, and the Cultural and Social Affairs Committee of the Serpentine Council respectively.

From 2010 to 2014, Suzan Sabancı served as the chairman of the Turkish-British Business Council for two terms. From 2009 to 2016, Ms. Sabancı sat on the Global Board of Advisors of Chatham House and she is currently a member of the Chatham House Chairman’s Circle. In 2012, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded Ms. Sabancı the title of "Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)" in recognition of her proactive and influential contributions to the development of Turkey-UK relations. Having previously served as an Advisory Board Member for The Prince's Charities, Ms. Sabancı is currently a Patron of Prince’s Trust International, a highly prestigious charity organisation set up by King Charles III, then The Prince of Wales, in 1976 and aimed at promoting the development of young people.

Suzan Sabancı is strongly committed to corporate social responsibility activities and assumes various positions in the fields of culture, education, and the promotion of entrepreneurship. Between 2014 and 2018, Sabancı acted as the Advisory Board President of the Women on Board Association Turkey, dedicated to promoting social development by increasing female representation on boards. She is a founding member and board member of the leading high-impact entrepreneurship movement, Endeavor Turkey, a founding and honorary member of the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey, and chairman of the Executive Advisory Board and member of the board of patrons of the Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair. Ms. Sabancı acted as Luxembourg’s Honorary Consul in Istanbul between 2005 and 2022 for 17 years. In 2014, Ms. Sabancı was given the Order of Civil Merit (Orden del Mérito Civil) of the Kingdom of Spain by King Felipe VI of Spain for her contributions to the relations between the two countries and for her support to the cultural convergence.

Suzan Sabancı holds a BA in Finance from Richmond College in the UK and an MBA from Boston University in the USA. Ms. Sabancı has two children.

Cristina Dolan

Co-Founder,
IX Ledger

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Can Kendi

Senior Partner & Managing Partner of Turkey Office,
McKinsey&Company

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Dr. Uğur Köylüoğlu

Vice Chairperson,
Oliver Wyman

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Dr. Mark Mobius

Founder,
Mobius Capital Partners

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Canan Özsoy

President & CEO,
General Electric Turkey

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Prof. Dr. Zehra Sayers

Acting President,
Sabancı University

Zehra Sayers is a founding academic member for the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of our university. She serves as the Foundations Development Director since 2010.

She received her Ph.D. degree in Biophysics from University of London (1978) and her B.Sc. degree in Physics from Boğaziçi University (1974). She has conducted her scientific work in the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany between 1984 and 1988 and finished her post-doctoral work in the Open University in Oxford and Uppsala University in Sweden.

In the international arena, she serves as the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) project since 2001. Aside from this, she is a reviewer for Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Turkish Accelerator Center (TAC) project and a member of the EMBL Hamburg Project Evaluation Panel.

Her scientific work throughout her academic career has been supported by institutions such as Swedish Natural Science Research Council, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), UNESCO and Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Her research areas include molecular biophysics, X-ray structure analysis of biological macromolecules, synchrotron radiation applications, production of recombinant proteins and protein chemistry as well as the design and improvement of fundamental teaching programs and novel pedagogical approaches.

She has written chapters in more than 6 books and published more than 45 academic articles including 27 SSCI articles. She has directed more than 17 graduate and doctoral dissertations.

Prof. Dr. Philip Strahan

Chair Professor of Finance,
Boston College

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Simon Taylor

Co-Founder,
11:FS

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Tankut Turnaoğlu

Chairman,
P&G Turkey and Caucasus

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