Prof. Erişah Arıcan started her academic career as research assistant at Marmara University Economics-Finance Department in 1988. She transferred to Marmara University Banking and Insurance Department in 1990 and with her thesis entitled “The Central Bank and the Auditing of Monetary Volumes”, earned her Ph.D. degree in 1991. She received an associate professor degree on Economic Policy in 1999, and professor degree at Marmara University Banking and Insurance Graduate School in 2015. Arıcan worked as Assistant Director and Board member of Marmara University Banking and Insurance Graduate School between 1998 and 2006, and as Director, between 2006 and 2015. She was appointed as the Director of Marmara University Banking and Insurance Institute in August 2015, and is currently in office. In addition to her role as Marmara University Banking and Insurance Graduate School Banking Department Chairman and Board member she has been carrying out since 2002, Prof. Arıcan assumed the title of Marmara University Banking and Insurance Institute Banking Department Chairman and Board member in September 2015. Prof. Arıcan has numerous studies and books on Turkish economy, economic systems, money-banking, central bank practices, financial markets and organizations. Prof. Dr. Erişah Arıcan was elected as Borsa İstanbul Board Member on April 1, 2016, as Board member of Turkiye Wealth Fund on September 12, 2018. Ms. Arıcan was elected as Chairperson of the Board at Ordinary General Assembly Meeting on September 27, 2018. She is married with two children.

Salih Tanrıkulu was born in 1974, in Ankara. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences in 1996, and his master’s degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mr Tanrıkulu began his professional career as an Assistant Expert at the Prime Ministry in 1997. Since 1998, he served as Revenue Controller at the Ministry of Finance, Head of Group at the Revenue Administration, Chief Tax Inspector and the Deputy Chairman of the Tax Inspection Board at the Ministry of Finance. He also served as Financial Advisor to the Permanent Delegation of Türkiye to the European Union (Brussels) and Member of the International Board of Auditors for NATO (IBAN) from 2013 to 2015. He was appointed as Board Member to the Presidency State Supervisory Council in 2015, and he also served as Chairman of the Inquiry Commission on the State of Emergency Measures between 2017 and 2023. Following his appointment as Deputy Chairman of Presidency State Supervisory Council, he was was elected Board Member of Borsa İstanbul on November 2, 2023. Mr Tanrıkulu was appointed as Chairman of Presidency State Supervisory Council on June 7, 2024. He speaks English&French and is married with three children.

Hakkı Susmaz was born in Gördes, Manisa on June 21, 1974. He graduated from Kırklareli 60th Year Health Vocational High School in 1992 and Ankara University, Faculty of Law in 1998. Hakkı Susmaz started his career at the Ministry of Health in 1992, and later worked as a Rapporteur and Legal Counsellor at the Office of Legal Counsellor at the Ministry of Health. Hakkı Susmaz served as Manager and Head, respectively, of the Department of Laws, Resolutions and Legal Affairs of the Presidency since 2011 and in 2018, he was appointed as Director General of Law and Legislation at the Presidency of Administrative Affairs. Hakkı Susmaz was appointed as Head of Administrative Affairs by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 17, 2024. Hakkı Susmaz is married with 2 children.

Director of Communications, Turkish Presidency. Fahrettin Altun received his undergraduate degree in Sociology from Istanbul University (1998) and a master’s degree in Sociology from Mimar Sinan University before completing the PhD program at Istanbul University in 2006. His dissertation was titled “A Comparative Analysis of the Media Theories of McLuhan and Baudrillard.” Having worked as a guest lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah in 2002-2003, Altun served on the founding academic board of Istanbul Sehir University and became the founding coordinator of the Department of Communication. He was among the architects of the same university’s graduate program in Cultural Studies and serves as Chair of the Department of Cinema and Television in 2008-2014. Between 2015 and 2017, Altun taught at Istanbul Medeniyet University’s Department of Sociology. Most recently, he served as founding dean of the Department of Communication at the Ibn Khaldun University. Altun was a senior executive of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research in 2013-2018. He is the author of Modernization Theory: A Critical Introduction (Insan Publishing, 2017, 4th Edition), Press Freedom in Türkiye (along with Ismail Çağlar and Turgay Yerlikaya; SETA Publishing, 2016) and Counter-Terrorism Strategies (along with Hasan Basri Yalçın; SETA Publishing, 2018). Altun’s articles have appeared in academic journals, including Middle East Critique, Insight Türkiye and Perceptions. He contributed chapters to edited volumes such as The Turkish AK Party and Its Leader: Criticism, Opposition and Dissent (Routledge, 2016), Political Thought in Modern Türkiye: Islamism (Iletisim, 2016) and Civil Society:Different Perspectives (Kaknus, 2016). He edited The Triumph of Turkish Democracy: The July 15 Coup Attempt and Its Aftermath (SETA Publishing, 2016) together with Burhanettin Duran and The Media on July 15: A Medium for the Coup and Resistance alongside Ismail Çağlar and Mehmet Akif Memmi. In his earlier career, Prof. Altun worked in the publishing industry and served as Advisor to the President of the Board of Higher Education (YÖK). He penned columns for Akşam, Sabah and Daily Sabah, and was a founder and Editor-in-Chief of the monthly magazine Kriter in 2016-2018. Altun worked with various national media outlets, including TRT and A Haber, as a commentator, host and producer. Prof. Altun’s areas of expertise include political communication, the sociology of media and communication, global studies and political sociology.

Peter Jurdjevic is Head of Financial Institutions Department at the Qatar Investment Authority. Prior to joining the Qatar Investment Authority, Peter served as a Managing Director at Barclays Investment Bank, where he ran Global Finance Solutions, a cross-disciplinary product and advisory team that provides transactional solutions and strategic advice to financial institutions worldwide. Before Barclays, Peter headed the EMEA New Products team at Citigroup.

Peter holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and European History from the University of Pennsylvania. Peter is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant.

Born in 1962, Konya, Işınsu Kestelli graduated from İzmir Amerikan Kız Lisesi (American Collegiate Institute – ACI) high school in 1981 and then recieved her bachelors degree in Public Finance from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University in 1986. Işınsu Kestelli, who is married and with a son, is founder and partner of Agrilink Tarım Ürünleri Company and also Agritrade Tarım Ürünleri Logistics. In November 1992, Işınsu Kestelli became a member of İzmir Commodity Exchange’s Vegetable Oils Professional Committee, and in 1995 was elected as a Board Member of İzmir Commodity Exchange, later serving as its Vice Chairman from 2003 until 2009. In February 2009, Kestelli was elected as the Chairman of Izmir Commodity Exchange, and was re-appointed to the same position by receiving a vote of confidence in the 2018 elections. On March 26, 2021, Işınsu Kestelli was elected as Board Member of Board Borsa İstanbul at its Ordinary General Assembly.

Cem Demiroğlu was born in Diyarbakır in 1978. He graduated from Beşiktaş Atatürk Anadolu Lisesi in 1996, and earned a B.A. degree in Business Administration from Boğaziçi Üniversitesi in 2000. He obtained a masters degree in Finance (with a minor in Economics) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2001, and his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Florida in 2008. He started his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Koç University. Since 2014, he has been serving as an Associate Professor on the faculty of Koç University where he teaches corporate finance, portfolio management, bank financial management, and private equity at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Professor Demiroğlu previously served on the faculties of University of Florida (2010-2011) and Bocconi University (Spring 2010) as a visiting professor. He has published several articles in top international academic journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Law and Economics, and Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. His research interest include credit markets, credit rating agencies, banking, corporate finance, mortgages, securitization, and troubled debt restructurings and bankruptcy. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Capital Markets and Journal of Corporate Finance. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Young Scholar Award granted by the Science Academy of Türkiye. Professor Demiroğlu has been serving as an adviser to the Minister of Finance at the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Treasury and Finance. He was elected as Borsa İstanbul Board Member on September 27, 2018. He is married with one child.

Mr. Tevfik Eraslan, who has 23 years of work experience, currently carries out his duty at Is Asset Management as Chief Executive Officer. He worked in the Treasury Department of an international financial institution between 1995-2001, before joining İş Asset Management in 2001. Mr. Eraslan served as Assistant Manager and Manager of the Pension Funds Department until 2008, and then as Executive Vice President in charge of Portfolio Management between 2008 and 2013. He was appointed CEO in September 2013. He attended in many executive programs from Pension Fund Management Seminars at The Wharton School of Economics and Global Asset Management Program at CFA Institute to Essentials of Management Program at the Columbia University. Mr. Eraslan holds a bachelor’s degree in Faculty of Economics from Istanbul University and a master’s degree in Capital Markets from the same university. Mr Eraslan serves as Chairman of Board of Directors of Luxembourg based Turkisfund; member of Board of Directors of Turkish Capital Markets Association and Turkish Institutional Investment Managers’ Association, and also the member of Türkiye-Luxembourg Business Council and Türkiye-Sweden Business Council of Foreign Economic Relations Board. Mr Tevfik Eraslan was elected as Board Member of Borsa İstanbul at Ordinary General Assembly Meeting on September 27, 2018

Korkmaz Ergun earned his undergraduate degree at Ankara University Faculty of Political Science, Department of Business Administration and started his career at Borsa İstanbul the same year. He completed his masters’ degree and PhD at Marmara University, Faculty of Economics. Having 28 years of Stock Exchange and Capital Markets experience, Ergun has administered the evaluation of the initial public offerings of numerous companies, and the examination and market activities of the companies listed on Borsa İstanbul. Moreover, Ergun is the Deputy Chairman of Takasbank Board of Directors. He is also a Board Member of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).