İbrahim Turhan was the chairman and CEO of the

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from 2012 to 2015 and a Member of the Turkish parliament for the governing Justice and Development Party from 2015 to 2018.

Biography

Turhan was born in

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in 1968. He graduated from

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in 1987 and was admitted to

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, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Management. He earned his Master of Arts degree from

Marmara University Marmara University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university, named after the Sea of Marmara, was founded as a university in 1982. However, its ...

Banking and Insurance Institute with a thesis on “Macroeconomic Consequences of Public Deficit and its Effects on the Turkish Banking Sector”, and his Ph.D. degree on banking with a thesis entitled “Financial Crises and Their Effects on the Real Sector: The Case of Turkey”.H e worked as member of staff with Marmara University during his doctorate studies. İbrahim M. Turhan, Ph.D., was awarded the title “associate professor” by the Inter University Council on January 28, 2014.

Academic work

Supported by the Marmara University Research Fund, Turhan was invited to University of Geneva Institute Européen (IEUG) and Loughborough University Banking Centre where he worked as research fellow. He joined

Yeditepe University Yeditepe University () is a private non-profit university situated in Istanbul, Turkey. Established by the Istanbul Education and Culture Foundation ('', İSTEK Vakfı'') in 1996, Yeditepe University now claims to be the largest of the 74 priva ...

as associate professor in 2001, where he chaired the Banking and Insurance Department and International Trade and Management Department, and also chaired The School of Applied Disciplines and School of Foreign Languages of Yeditepe University. Turhan lectured on international financial markets and organizations, strategic planning and management in financial institutions, banking theory and policy and central bank management in various universities including İstanbul Bilgi, Marmara, İstanbul Ticaret and Kadir Has. He also worked as part-time member of staff with

Beykent University Istanbul Beykent University () is a foundation university in Istanbul, Turkey, teaching in English, Russian combined and Turkish with 30.000 students. Beykent University has agreements with European universities under the SOCRATES programme, Soc ...

Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences until 2004. In addition to his publications on financial economics and economy politics, Mr. Turhan also worked as consultant, editor and editor-in-chief with periodicals on banking, finance and finance technologies. Turhan is a member of the Leaders Group and Business Advisory Board of the Kiel Institute Global Economic Symposium and has published articles in international refereed journals on the Turkish economy, financial economy and economy politics.

Political career

Turhan became a member of parliament for Tayyip Erdogan's governing AK Party in 2015. He left this position in July 2018.
He was one of the founders of the newly founded Future Party.

References

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