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Current Position and Affiliations

King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (link)

• Senior Research Fellow, January 2022 - present

• Senior Research Associate, November 2019 - December 2021

Economic Research Forum, Egypt (link)

• Research Fellow, June 2022 - present

Previous Positions

Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Turkey

• Economist, Structural Economic Analysis Department, February, 2017 - October, 2019

• Economist, Macro Financial Analysis Division, August 2015 - February 2017

ADA University, Azerbaijan 

• Assistant Professor of Economics, Sep 2014 - August 2015

The World Bank Group/IFC, United States

• Consultant (STC), Investment Climate Department, February 2012 - June 2013

University of Calgary, Canada

• Sessional Instructor, May 2011- May 2014 (during spring and summer semesters)

• Teaching/Research Assistant, September 2008- May 2014

Western Illinois University, United States

• Teaching Assistant, September 2006 - May 2007

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, The University of Calgary, 2014, CANADA

• M.A., Economics, Western Illinois University, 2007, USA

• B.A., Business Administration and Economics, Uludag University, 2004, TURKEY

Technical Training

• Firm Dynamics and Economic Growth. CBRT, August 2018 Ankara by Prof. Ufuk Akcigit of the University of Chicago

• Financial Markets and Financial Instruments. IMF, October 2016 Vienna by the IMF Staff

• Financial Market Analysis. IMF, July 2016 Online by the IMF Staff

• Financial Crises and Credit Risk. CBRT, July 2016 Ankara by  Prof. Robert DeYoung  of University of Kansas

• Dynamic and Non-Linear Panel Data Methods. CBRT, February 2016 Ankara by Prof. Sergi Jimenez-Martin of University Pompeu Fabra

• Empirical Banking and Finance. CBRT, October 2015 Ankara by Prof. Thorsten Beck of European University Institute

• International Corporate Taxation. IIPF Doctoral School (Oxford University), September 2014 Oxford by Dr. Michael Keen of the IMF and Prof. Michael Devereux of the University of Oxford

• Islamic Finance Summer School. Durham University, September 2011 Istanbul by Durham University faculty

• Financial Institutions Summer School. The University of Victoria, July 2010 Victoria, BC by the University of Victoria faculty

Executive Training

High Flyers Program, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Completed in May 2019, Turkey

• Module 1: Leadership by Prof. Joerg Dietz of HEC Lausanne

• Module 2: Decision Making, Problem Solving and Managing Uncertainty by Prof. M. H. Bazerman of Harvard Business School

• Module 3: Time Management and Presentation by Prof. Julie Lang of Dartmouth Collage 

• Module 4: Project Management by Prof.Yael Grushka of Harvard Business School

• Module 5: Negotiation by Prof. Horacio Falcao of INSEAD

• Module 6: Effective Communication by Prof. Paul Argenti of Dartmouth Collage

• Module 7: Business Analytics by Prof. Amit Joshi of IMD

• Module 8: Leading Effective Teams by Prof. Joerg Dietz of HEC Lausanne

• Module 9: Digital Strategy and Managing Innovation by Prof. Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard Business School