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SPEAKER BIOS | IN SPEAKING ORDER Okan Böke Advisor to the CEO GS Banque Geneva After having graduated from Texas A&M University with B.S. and M.S. both in Industrial Engineering, Okan has started his career at Citi NY in 1990 from where he went to Citi Istanbul Treasury Department. Shortly thereafter, Okan joined the Treasury Department of Interbank Istanbul. He worked at all desks of the Treasury from where he moved to Korfezbank as Senior Vice President. He worked there until 2001. Thereafter, he worked as Executive Vice President at TAIB Bank , responsible for FI and Treasury. In 2006, he moved to TSKB as Head of Treasury where he stayed until 2009 and then moved to a US Hybrid Fund as the CIO. The Hedge Fund Business was rather short, whereafter he advised a Spiral Steel Pipe company for IPO. He stayed there as the CFO following the IPO. He worked at Ozbal between 2011 and 2014 as the CFO. Very recently, March 2013, he joined ATIG Securities as the General Coordinator. He now is serving as the Consultant to the CEO of Geneva Suisse Bank in Geneva. At the same time, Okan also has been serving as the Commentator on the Bloomberg TV, in Turkey, since 2011. Bader Arslan Secretary-General Turkish Exporters’ Association (TIM) Following graduation from business administration department of Ankara University, Arslan completed his master’s degree and Ph.D. in the Faculty of Political Science of Ankara University and worked as a faculty member from 1999 to 2012. Arslan has been delivering commentaries on the economic and political agenda on financial broadcasts and newspapers from 2006 onwards and held advisory posts at Ministry of Industry, Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade and Ministry of Economy from 2009 to 2013. Prior to his assignment at Turkish Exporters Assembly, Arslan was in charge of the General Directorate for Economic Research and Evaluation at the Ministry of Economy. Arslan is fluent in English and French and carried out research at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium and Université Paris Dauphine in France. Halil Bader Arslan has numerous articles published in national and international journals and newspapers, as well as books which he wrote, made contributions to and translated. Pinar Artiran Director, Research Centre on International Trade Law & Arbitration Istanbul Bilgi University World Trade Organisation (WTO) Chair Holder Dr. Pinar Artitan is Assistant Professor in Private International Law, WTO Chair Holder and Director of the Research Center for International Trade Law and Arbitration at Istanbul Bilgi University. She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law and practiced as an attorney‐at-law in Ankara in the field of international arbitration. She then undertook postgraduate studies on European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium followed by doctoral studies at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy where she completed her PhD on International Trade Law. She has worked for the Academy of European Law at the EUI and has spent periods as a visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, USA and as a trainee at the DG Internal Market of the European Commission in Brussels and as an intern at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Her research and teaching interests lie in the fields of International Law, International Economic Law, EU Competition and Trade Law as well as Arbitration. Among other universities and colleges, she also taught as professor in the LL.M Programme on International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) of University of Barcelona, as a senior fellow at The Melbourne Law Masters of Melbourne Law School and Professor at Master of International Economic Law at the University of Toulouse. Dr Artiran acts since 2010 as consultant and the Academic Coordinator for the Regional Trade Policy Courses organised for government officials from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asian and Caucasus Countries by the WTO. She has been awarded the WTO Chair title by the WTO in May 2014. She is a member of the Society on International Economic Law, ELSA Moot Court Competition Academic Board, European Society of International Law, International Law Institute and Ankara Bar Association and she also is a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow. She is currently acting as legal expert for the study on the revision of Turkey‐EU Customs Union agreement commissioned by the European Commission. Ahmet Cimenoglu Chief Economist Koc Holding Ahmet Çimenoğlu started his professional life as an economist at Yapi Kredi Bank in 1995, after completing his MA in Economics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He received his PhD degree in economics at Istanbul Technical University in 2002. He worked as the Chief Economist, and Head of Strategic Planning and Research at Yapi Kredi, respectively, between July 2004 and February 2009. In March 2009, he joined Koc Holding as the Head of Economic Research. He is currently the Chief Economist of the Koc Holding. He is also teaching at Bogazici University on a part-time basis. Artuğ Acartürk Director, Head of Cash Management & Trade Finance Sales, Corporate & Commercial Banking Management Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi Artug Acartürk started his career in 2000 as a management trainee in Finansbank at project finance field. After spending 5 years in the Turkish market he moved to Credit Europe Bank in the Netherlands and took various managerial roles in shipping finance, commodity finance and corporate lending areas. Starting with 2012 he worked at the trade finance field in ING Bank Turkey and took an active role in the establishment of the trade finance team and setting up the guidelines for the trade finance activities within the bank. At June 2014 he joined Yapi Kredi Bankasi as the Head of Cash Management and Trade Finance Sales with the responsibility of sales activites in Trade Finance & Cash Management products. Artug Acarturk holds his BS degree from Bogazici University Department of Civil Engineering. He speaks English, German and Dutch. He also holds an MBA degree in finance track. Cihat Takunyaci Managing Director, Country Manager & Senior Representative, Turkey BNY Mellon Cihat Takunyaci is the Country Manager and Senior Representative of The Bank of New York Mellon’s Istanbul Representative Office. In addition to the country management responsibility for Turkey and Azerbaijan, he has the relationship management responsibility for Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan within its Treasury Services business in the Europe, Middle East & Africa region. He also represents BNY Mellon at the Board of TUYID, Turkish Investor Relations Society. Educated at Bogazici University with BSc at Mechanical Engineering and Istanbul University for post- graduate certificate program in Business Administration, Cihat has been with BNY Mellon since 1997. Before, he spent a good portion of his career with investment banking and capital markets activities including corporate finance, asset management and M&As. Onur Tanriverdi Director, CEEMEA Trade Sales Bank of America Merrill Lynch Mr.Tanriverdi is Director, Trade Product Sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Onur graduated from Istanbul University Economics and Istanbul University Banking. Onur Tanriverdi has more than 20 years’ experience in the banking sector, mainly in transaction services. Before Bank of America Merrill Lynch he worked at RBS as Head of Cash Management and Trade Sales. Before RBS, Onur has worked at both ABN AMRO and Kocbank. Abou Jallow General Manager, Operations International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) Abou Jallow is the General Manager of Operations for International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation. Müge Somer Head of Transaction Service Sales ING Bank Turkey Müge Somer is the Head of Transaction Service Sales for ING Bank Turkey. Muzaffer Aksoy Chief Representative, Turkey Bank ABC Muzaffer Aksoy joined ABC International Bank plc (ABCIB) in January 2005 as Chief Representative of their Turkey representative office. He is the Turkish country manager responsible for managing the Turkish country limit for ABC group. He is a board member of ABC Tunis and a member of the ABCIB management committee. After graduating from Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Muzaffer went on to study for a MBA in International Management at the University of Dallas, Texas, USA and subsequently joined Nejat Atalan Dis Ticaret A.S., Izmir in 1989 as Export Manager. Muzaffer then joined Otak A.S./Yasar Holding as Assistant General Manager in 1992 followed by Heller Factoring A.S. in 1993 as Marketing Manager, providing export, import and domestic factoring services. In 1995 (until 2005) Muzaffer moved to London Forfaiting Company as Head of London Forfaiting Istanbul where he successfully established their Istanbul Representative Office. Muzaffer has over 20 years banking experience principally dedicated to trade finance, forfaiting, Islamic finance, correspondent banking, project finance and arranging and distributing Turkish assets. In 2012, he received a PHD in Management from Beykent University, Istanbul in 2012. Muzaffer is currently the board member of the Turkish Libya Business Council and a Board member of Turkish, Iraq and Algeria Business Councils under DEIK (Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey). Riza Kadilar Senior Country Manager & Representative for Turkey Natixis Dr. Riza Kadilar is a PhD in Media Economics. After a BSc degree at METU in Industrial Engineering, he has obtained his MSc degree at Stanford University,