About Conference
“Rethinking Atatürk's Pioneer Vision Towards the Second Century of the Turkish Republic at the 100th Year of İşbank ”
September 26-27, 2024
İş Towers Hall, İstanbul
Founded by Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on August 26, 1924 as the first national bank of our country based on the idea that political independence could only be possible through economic independence, İşbank celebrates the 100th anniversary of its foundation.
The first edition of the international conference ‘Rethinking Atatürk's Pioneer Vision Towards the Second Century of the Turkish Republic’ was held in 2023 when we celebrated the 100th anniversary of our Republic and shared the viewpoints of national and international speakers on the future perspective of the Great Leader Atatürk, which illuminates our path even a century later. This year marks the second edition of this international conference to commemorate one of history's greatest statesmen,
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk...
ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF İŞBANK
RETHINKING ATATÜRK’S PIONEER VISION TOWARDS THE SECOND CENTURY OF TURKISH REPUBLIC CONFERENCE
September 26-27, 2024 - İş Towers Hall / ISTANBUL
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
| 10.00 | Opening |
| 10.05 | MEHMET NURİ ERSOY - Minister of Culture and Tourism of The Republic of Türkiye Keynote Speech |
| 10.20 | ADNAN BALİ - Chairperson of İşbank “The Construction of a National Economy and İşbank” |
| 10.40 | MALCOLM GLADWELL – Journalist, Author “World Economy in the Next Century” |
| 11.20 | BREAK |
| 11.50 | Panel: “Turkish Economic Policies” PROF. DR. ASAF SAVAŞ AKAT - Economist, Academician DR. MAHFI EĞİLMEZ – Economist, Author EGE CANSEN – Economist, Management Consultant Moderator: DENİZ BAYRAMOĞLU |
| 12.50 | LUNCH |
| 14.00 | PROF. DR. PAUL KRUGMAN – Nobel Prize Winner Economist “Changing Global Economy and Türkiye” |
| 14.40 | PROF. DR. ŞEVKET PAMUK – Economics Historian “Economic Policies during Atatürk’s Era and Today” |
| 15.30 | BREAK |
| 16.00 | PROF. DR. GÖKHAN HOTAMIŞLIGİL – Professor of Genetics and Metabolism at Harvard University “Molecular Architecture and Biology in Five Dimensions“ |
| 16.40 | REFİK ANADOL - Artist “Creativity in the Era of Artificial Intelligence” |
| 17.20 | BREAK |
| 17.40 | Panel: “The Olympic Spirit“ NİSANUR ERBİL - National Fencer ŞEVVAL İLAYDA TARHAN – National Sports Shooter EDİZ GÜREL - National GM Chess Player ERSU ŞAŞMA- National Athlete Moderator: BANU YELKOVAN |
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
| 10.00 | PROF. DR. DARON ACEMOĞLU - MIT Economics Proffessor “Six Trends That Will Disrupt Global Balances and Türkiye” |
| 10.40 | HAKAN ARAN - General Manager of İşbank “Six Trends That Will Disrupt Global Balances and Türkiye” |
| 11.00 | Panel: “Going for Growth” PROF. DR. UFUK AKÇİĞİT - Economist, Academician PROF. DR. PHILIPPE AGHION - Economist Moderator: AFŞİN YURDAKAL |
| 11.40 | BREAK |
| 12.00 | BRETT KING - Futurist, Author “Towards Bank 5.0 and Smart Economies” |
| 12.40 | ANA PAULA DE JESUS ASSIS - CHAIR & General Manager EMEA, IBM “A bridge into the future: Inventing what’s next in computing” |
| 13.00 | LUNCH |
| 14.15 |
STEVE WOZNIAK - Co-founder of Apple, Computer Scientist “Articulating the New Era” Moderator: SERDAR TURAN |
| 15.15 | BREAK |
| 15.45 |
PROF. DR. AZİZ SANCAR - Nobel Prize Winner Biochemist, Academician, Molecular Biologist “The Republic and Atatürk from a Scientist’s Perspective” Moderator: FATİH ALTAYLI |
Speakers
Mehmet Nuri Ersoy
Minister of Culture and
Tourism of the Republic of Turkey
Adnan Bali
Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Türkiye İş Bankası
Mr. Adnan Bali graduated from Middle East Technical University with a BS degree in Economics, and began...
Adnan Bali
Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Türkiye İş Bankası
Mr. Adnan Bali graduated from Middle East Technical University with a BS degree in Economics, and began his banking career at İşbank in the Board of Inspectors as Assistant Inspector. Mr. Bali served at Fund Management Department as Assistant Manager in 1994, as Group Manager in 1997 and was promoted to Head of Fund Management in 1998. Mr. Bali was appointed as Branch Manager of Şişli Branch in 2002, Galata Branch in 2004, and was promoted to the post of Deputy Chief Executive in 30 May 2006. He was appointed as the CEO of İşbank in 1 April 2011.
In addition to İşbank, Mr. Adnan Bali serves as the Chairperson of Türkiye Şişe ve Cam Fabrikaları A.Ş., and İşbank Members Supplementary Pension Fund.
Mr. Bali, who was elected as a member of İşbank's Board of Directors on 31 March 2021 and 30 March 2023 and as the Chairperson of İşbank on 1 April 2021, 25 March 2022, 31 March 2023 and 29 March 2024 also serves as the Chairperson of the Remuneration Committee, the Risk Committee, the Sustainability Committee and the Board of Directors Operating Principles Committee and a member of the Credit Committee.
Ana Paula De Jesus Assis
IBM EMEA President and
General Manager
Ana Paula De Jesus Assis holds a degree in Computer Science, a postgraduate degree in business...
Ana Paula De Jesus Assis
IBM EMEA President and
General Manager
Ana Paula De Jesus Assis holds a degree in Computer Science, a postgraduate degree in business management from FGV and an MBA from Fundação Dom Cabral.
At Kyndryl, she served as General Manager of the Customer Transition Office, supporting more than four thousand customers. She then became the General Manager of IBM Latin America, focusing on achieving sustainable growth and increasing market share. During her career, she held multiple positions in the US and China.
Assis also served as a board member of Junior Achievement Americas, one of the largest charities supporting young students to become entrepreneurs, from March 2018 to January 2022.
Serving as the General Manager of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) since January 2022, Assis is also the President of Europe, Middle East and Africa from January 2023, responsible for IBM's relations with the European Union and other institutions in the region.
With over 25 years of international experience in the information technology market, Assis is an expert in strategic business development, transformation and change management in multicultural environments.
In MERCO's (Monitor Empresarial de Reputación Corporativa) 2021 reputation ranking, she was listed among the top 100 most reputable executives in Brazil. She was also recognized as "Leading IT executive" by Valor Economico newspaper, "Executive of the year - Digital Transformation" by the Institute Learning & Performance in 2018, Forbes Brazil's "most powerful women" and Forbes Brazil's "Best CEOs" in 2019.
Prof. Dr. Asaf Savaş Akat
Economist,
Academician
He graduated from Galatasaray High School and Istanbul University Faculty of Economics. He received his master's...
Prof. Dr. Asaf Savaş Akat
Economist,
Academician
He graduated from Galatasaray High School and Istanbul University Faculty of Economics. He received his master's degree from the University of East Anglia in England and his PhD from Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics. With AFS, AIESEC, OECD and US scholarships, he participated in education, internship, course and certificate programs in various countries.
He became an associate professor at Istanbul University Faculty of Economics in 1973 and a professor in 1980. He was a lecturer at the same university and Marmara University, and a member of the academic board at Istanbul School of International Studies. Between 1996 and 1998, he served as the President of Bilgi University. He is currently a faculty member at the same university.
In addition to his academic life, Asaf Savaş Akat also took important roles in business life. From 1982 to 1992, he worked as Advisor to the Chairman of Kavala Group of Companies, a Partner and Board Member Çatı Construction Company, an Executive Board Member of Kavala Group of Companies, a Board Member and an Executive Board Member of Kavala Investment, Chairman of İMTAŞ Insurance Board, Advisor to the Executive Board of Eczacıbaşı Pharmaceuticals and a Board Member of Eczacıbaşı Holding.
Akat has many articles and essays published in various newspapers and magazines. He also gave numerous conferences, seminars and interviews in Türkiye and abroad and participated in radio and television programs. During his time at NTV, Akat was a part of "Ekodiyalog" program with Taner Berksoy, Deniz Gökçe, Ege Cansen and Mahfi Eğilmez, and was a columnist for Sabah and Vatan newspapers.
Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar
Nobel Prize Winner Academician,
Biochemist, Molecular Biologist
Born in Savur district of Mardin, Aziz Sancar graduated from Istanbul University Medical School in 1969 at the top ...
Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar
Nobel Prize Winner Academician,
Biochemist, Molecular Biologist
Born in Savur district of Mardin, Aziz Sancar graduated from Istanbul University Medical School in 1969 at the top of his class. After working as a physician in a community health center in Savur for two years, he went to Johns Hopkins University with a NATO-TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) scholarship and continued to research there for nearly two years. Then he returned to Türkiye. However, he wanted to complete his studies in the US, so he went to the University of Texas at Dallas. He joined the university's molecular biology program and Claud Stanley Rupert's laboratory team. In this laboratory, Sancar and his advisor Claud Stanley Rupert cloned a gene called "photolyase" and managed to reproduce it at very high rates in bacteria by genetic engineering. Enabling the repair of DNA damaged by ultraviolet light with the enzyme encoded by the gene in question, this invention brought Aziz Sancar first a master's degree and then a PhD degree.
Between 1977 and 1982, he worked at Yale University Medical School. During this period, he interrupted his work on the photolyase enzyme and started research on nucleotide-cut repair. He completed his associate professorship thesis in DNA repair. Since 1997, he has been conducting his research at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in North Carolina, USA, a city known for its biochemistry and biophysics research.
Working on DNA repair, cell sequencing, cancer treatment and biological clock, Prof.Dr. Sancar has 415 scientific articles and 33 books.
Sancar has received many awards for his use of the circadian clock in cancer treatment. In 2001, Sancar was awarded the North Carolina Distinguished Chemist Award by the American Chemical Society and in 2005, he was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious memberships in the world of science, becoming the first Turkish American scientist to be elected to this academy. After receiving this award, he founded Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation with his wife to help Turkish students studying in the USA and to improve Turkish-American relations, and opened a student guesthouse named "Carolina Turkish House" in North Carolina, USA.
Prof. Dr. Sancar, the first Turkish American elected to the US National Academy of Sciences along with Mehmet Özdoğan, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his research mapping how cells repair damaged DNA and preserve genetic information.
Brett King
Futurist,
Author
Known for his expertise on the future of global banking, Brett King is the founder and CEO of Moven, a successful ...
Brett King
Futurist, Author
Known for his expertise on the future of global banking, Brett King is the founder and CEO of Moven, a successful mobile startup with the world's first mobile and downloadable bank account. Available in the US, Canada, the UK, Indonesia and New Zealand, the mobile startup has raised more than USD 24 million in funding to date.
King currently advises regulators and bank CEOs around the world on financial technology transformation. He also advised the Obama administration on fintech policy during his presidency.
King also hosts the world's first and #1 radio program on FinTech called "Breaking Banks", which has 6.5 million listeners in 180 countries.
Named "King of the Disruptors" by Banking Exchange magazine, King was named "American Banker's Innovator of the Year" in 2012 and "World's #1 Financial Services Influencer" by The Financial Brand. He was nominated by Bank Innovation as one of the 10 most prestigious brands in banking.
King's most recent fifth book, Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane, is an international bestseller and has been in the top 10 on Amazon for more than a year. “The Rise of Technosocialism”, his 7th book was released November 2021.
Prof. Dr. Daron Acemoğlu
MIT Economics Proffessor
A graduate of Galatasaray High School, Prof. Daron Acemoğlu completed his undergraduate degree...
Prof. Dr. Daron Acemoglu
MIT Economics Proffessor
A graduate of Galatasaray High School, Prof. Dr. Daron Acemoğlu completed his undergraduate degree in the Department of Mathematical Economics and Econometrics at the University of York in England. He received his master's and PhD degrees from the London School of Economics.
Teaching at the London School of Economics between 1992 and 1993, Acemoğlu has been leading his academic career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA since 1993. In 2000, Acemoğlu became a professor of economics, and in 2019 he received the title of "institute professor", the highest degree that can be awarded to a faculty member at a university.
His paper "Consumer Confidence and Rational Expectations: Are Agents' Beliefs Consistent With the Theory?", published in The Economic Journal early in his academic career at MIT, received the "Best Paper of 1996" award. In 2005, Acemoğlu was honored with the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to a scientist under the age of 40 who has made the greatest contribution to economics science.
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, co-authored with political scientist James A. Robinson, was published in 2006. His work on the role of institutions in economic development and political economy was awarded the Science Award by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) in 2006.
Acemoğlu and Robinson's 2012 book “Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty and Prosperity” also made the New York Times bestseller list. In this book, Acemoglu and Robinson argue that the main reason for differences in prosperity between nations is not geographical, historical or cultural factors, but the nature of the economic and political institutions that nations have.
Acemoğlu received the 2013 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Award in Social Sciences for his distinct approach to classical growth and development theories and models. His new book “Power and Progress”, co-authored with Simon Johnson was named to the Financial Time‘s Best Technology Books of 2023.
Acemoğlu was awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Utrecht, Bilkent, Bath, Boğaziçi and Athens, as well as the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 2019, he was named 'Institute Professor' by MIT, and in 2021, he was named Honorary Fellow by the British Academy. He was twice named one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, as well as the 2019 winner of the Kiel Institute’s Global Economy Prize.
In addition to his academic work, Acemoğlu is also an associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of Economic Growth.
Ediz Gürel
National GM Chess Player
He was born in 2008 in Bursa. Starting to play chess at the age of 7 when his teacher noticed his interest, Ediz Gürel...
Ediz Gürel
National GM Chess Player
He was born in 2008 in Bursa. Starting to play chess at the age of 7 when his teacher noticed his interest, Ediz Gürel succeeded in the first two tournaments he participated in Bursa, and after achieving success in the first two tournaments, he managed to enter the Turkish Chess National Team Youth System 6 months after he started playing chess.
Ediz Gürel became the youngest chess player to make a move in the 2023 World Cup. In a tournament like the World Cup where the best chess players of the world compete, he made a mark on the world chess agenda by winning the match in 28 moves against his Grandmaster (GM) opponent in the 1st round.
In the 2023 European Club Cup, he made a move for the Turkish Airlines Sports Club team and became the most successful chess player by making 7 out of 7 in the Cup, where the world's number 1 also competed. Upon the invitation of world chess authorities, he successfully represented our country in the 2023 Grand Swiss Chess Championship, where the world's most successful chess players competed.
With his successful performance at the Prague Chess Festival, he received the last GM norm and became the 15th Grandmaster of our country. Also making a move in the Challengers category of the tournament , our successful chess player completed the tournament as champion and was entitled to represent our country in the Masters category, where the best chess players around the world will compete in 2025.
With his successful performance in the World Blitz Team Chess Championship, he became the champion on the first table, where Magnus Carlsen, the number one ranked player in the world, also competed.
With his successful performance in the Türkiye İşbank Centennial Year Chess Super League, Ediz also ranked first in the Turkish Elo list.
Achievements
- 2024 International Sardinia Chess Festival - Second in U-18 Category
- 2024 Prague Chess Festival Challengers Category Winner
- 2023 Centennial Year of our Republic Türkiye İşbank Chess Cup Champion
- 2023 Croatia Super Chess League First Table Winner
- 2023 European Club Cup Sixth Table Winner
- 2023 World Under-16 Chess Olympiad Runner-up as National Team
- 2023 World Age Groups Blitz Chess Championship 16 Age General Category World Champion
- 2022 European Age Groups Chess Championship 14 Age General Category Europe Runner-Up
- 2022 Rhodes World Blitz Chess Championship 14 Age General Category Runner-Up
- 2022 International Blitz Chess Championship 14 Age General Category World Champion
- 2022 TBMM (Grand National Assembly of Türkiye) Cup Runner-up
- 2021 FIDE Online Rapid 14 Age General Category World Champion
- 2021 FIDE Online World Rapid 14 Age General Category Super Final Champion
- 2020 Prague International Chess Festival Young Talents Runner-Up
- 2019 European Schools Chess Championship 11 Age General Category Second Runner-up
Ersu Şaşma
National Athlete
He was born in Mersin on September 30, 1999. He is currently a senior at the School of Physical Education and ...
Ersu Şaşma
National Athlete
He was born in Mersin on September 30, 1999. He is currently a senior at the School of Physical Education and Sports at Mersin University. Şaşma made his way into track and field in 2016 and has been on the rise ever since. Breaking the 22-year-old Turkish senior pole vault record 6 months before the Olympic Games in 2021, Şaşma achieved a first in the history of Turkish track and field athletics when he reached the Olympic Games final in Tokyo after clearing 5.80 m to qualify for the Olympic Games on the last week of the qualifications. The young athlete finished 10th at the Olympic Games.
Ersu Şaşma continued to shine after Tokyo, clearing 5.75 m to win the gold medal during the 19th Mediterranean Games in Vahran, Algeria. He then proceeded to break the games record with 5.60 m and won the gold medal at the men's pole vault final during the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games at Konya Athletics Track in Konya.
Şaşma won Türkiye's first medal in pole vault at the European Athletics Championships. In June 2024, he secured the bronze medal during the European Athletics Championships in Rome after clearing 5.82 m. In the summer of 2023, he qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics after jumping 5.90 m to eclipse the previous Turkish record. During the pole vault final at Paris 2024 Olympics, he cleared 5.85 m, his season’s best, to finish 5th.
Achievements:
- 5th place at Paris 2024 Olympic Games
- 3rd place in European Athletics Championships
- 1st place at the Mediterranean Games
- 1st place at the Islamic Solidarity Games
- 1st place in Balkan Athletics Championship
- 3rd place in European Athletics U23 Championships
Ege Cansen
Economist,
Management Consultant
He graduated from METU Department of Business Administration in 1961. During the same year,...
Ege Cansen
Economist, Management Consultant
He graduated from METU Department of Business Administration in 1961. During the same year, Ege Cansen started his career at Arçelik, and in 1964, he went to Wharton and received his MBA degree with a scholarship from Arçelik.
Between 1987 and 2000, he taught Managerial Economics at Marmara University in the Engineering Management Master’s Program. Between 1983 and 2014, he worked as an economics columnist for Hürriyet Newspaper. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Koç University since its foundation in 2000. Between 1983 and 2014, he worked as an Economy Columnist at Hürriyet Newspaper.
Starting writing for Sözcü Newspaper in January 2014, Cansen continues his economics commentary, which he started at TRT in 1987, at Bloombergh TV. He is currently an independent board member of AYGAZ AŞ.
Prof. Dr. Gökhan Hotamışlıgil
Professor of Genetics and Metabolism at
Harvard University
Having graduated from Ankara Anatolian High School in
1980, Gökhan Hotamışlıgil graduated from Ankara Medical...
Prof. Dr. Gökhan Hotamışlıgil
Professor of Genetics and Metabolism at Harvard University
Having graduated from Ankara Anatolian High School in 1980, Gökhan Hotamışlıgil graduated from Ankara Medical School in 1986 as a medical doctor. After residency and compulsory service, he completed his doctoral studies at Harvard University Medical School in 1994 and established his own laboratory as an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Biological Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2003, Hotamışgil was promoted as a professor and has been the founding head of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases ever since.
He is a member of Harvard-MIT Broad Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Joslin Diabetes Center as well as a member of Kadir Has University Board of Trustees.
Prof. Dr. Hotamışlıgil is a member of the selection committees of the NY Academy of Sciences, Blavatnik, Kadir Has, Koç, Sedat Simavi and Sabri Ülker Awards and editor of Science Translational Medicine, Cell Metabolism, EMBO Molecular Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, PlosBiology, Turkish Journal of Biochemistry, Turkish Journal of Medicine and other scientific research journals, and a member of Sabri Ülker Foundation Science Committee, Kadir Has University Board of Trustees, Crescenta Biosciences Scientific Advisory Board and as well as the president of Sabri Ülker Metabolic Research Center. He also continues to volunteer at Child Wellness Center established at Çukurova University to serve children with limb loss.
He was awarded with 2004 TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) and 2013 Vehbi Koç Foundation Science Awards. Professor doctor Hotamışlıgil's other scientific awards include the American Diabetes Association's Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, the World Obesity Federation's Wertheimer Award, Columbia University's Naomi Berrie Research Award, the International Endocrine Society's Roy Greep Award for Outstanding Research, and the International Danone Award. Most recently, he has been awarded the EASD-Novo Nordisk Foundation Excellence Award. His work on intracellular molecular architecture, performed through advanced microscopy and cell biology and revealing new insights on form and function, was exhibited in collaboration with Hotamışlıgil and Refik Anadol Studio at the 2021 Venice Biennale with the work "Molecular Architecture".
Prof. Dr. Hotamışlıgil is especially known for his seminal work on elucidating the basic mechanisms of common chronic metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, fatty liver and cardiovascular diseases. These studies are important in terms of revealing new concepts in the approach to metabolic diseases and unique intervention methods for treatment.
Hakan Aran
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Hakan Aran graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Engineering Department of the Middle East....
Hakan Aran
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Hakan Aran graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University. He completed his master's degree in Business Administration at Başkent University and he is currently continuing his PhD in Banking at İstanbul Commerce University.
Beginning his career at İşbank as a Software Specialist in 1990, Mr. Aran was appointed as the Head of Software Development Department in 2005. He was promoted to the position of Deputy Chief Executive responsible for operations, digital banking and technology in 2008 and took part in important transformation programs of the Bank. Appointed as İşbank's 17th Chief Executive Officer on 1 April 2021, Mr Aran also serves as the Chairperson of the Credit Committee, Human Resources Committee and Information Technology Strategy Committee, Information Security Committee and as member of the Risk Committee and Operational Risk Committee.
In addition to his duties at the Bank, Mr. Aran serves as the Chairperson of Trakya Yatırım Holding A.Ş. and İşbank AG.
Mahfi Eğilmez
Economist, Author
He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Economics and Finance...
Mahfi Eğilmez, PhD
Economist, Author
He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Economics and Finance. He received his PhD from Gazi University with a thesis titled 'Financing of Public Economic Enterprises'.
In 1972, he started his public service as Assistant Inspector of Finance and worked as Inspector of Finance, Assistant Director General of Revenues, Head of the Department of Public Institutions and Subsidiaries of the Treasury, Assistant Director General of Public Finance of the Treasury, Economic and Trade Counselor at the Embassy of Washington, Director General of Public Finance of the Undersecretariat of Treasury and Foreign Trade, Deputy Undersecretary of Treasury and Foreign Trade, Chief Economic and Trade Counselor at the Embassy of Washington and Counselor at the Undersecretariat of Treasury.
During his tenure at the Treasury, he served as a board member of Temsan (Türkiye Elektromekanik Sanayii A.Ş.) and TEK (Turkish Electricity Authority). He also acted as a member of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), and as deputy governor and governor of the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He lectured at Istanbul Bilgi University and Kadir Has University and wrote columns for Yeni Yüzyıl and Radikal newspapers. He worked as an economic commentator at CNBCe and NTV.
Having published 26 books to date, Eğilmez is currently a faculty member at Altınbaş University. He publishes his articles on his blog and in the monthly journal İktisat ve Toplum.
Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist, Author
Majored in history, Malcolm Gladwell lived in New York between 1987 and 1996 and wrote about economics...
Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist, Author
Majored in history, Malcolm Gladwell lived in New York between 1987 and 1996 and wrote about economics and science for the Washington Post. He managed the New York Bureau of the newspaper for a while.
Since 1996, Gladwell has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker magazine and is the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, which produces the podcasts “Broken Record”.
After achieving great success with The Tipping Point in 2000, Gladwell multiplied his success with Blink, published in 2005, and became the guru of the business world and began to be called the "New God of Marketing".
Gladwell's The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw and David and Goliath are five New York Times bestsellers.
Gladwell has been included in TIME's 100 Most Influential People and was named one of Foreign Policy's "Top Global Thinkers".
Nisanur Erbil
National Fencer
She was born in Samsun in 2003. She started her sports career playing volleyball but switched to fencing ...
Nisanur Erbil
National Fencer
She was born in Samsun in 2003. She started her sports career playing volleyball but switched to fencing at the age of 13. Her success in fencing was noticed in a short time, and she joined the national team camp center. For 7 years, she has stayed at the National team camp center in Ankara to sustain her.
At the age of 21, Nisanur became the first female fencer to represent our country at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Her next goal is to stand at the top of the podium at the 2028 and 2032 Olympics. She also aims to win medals at the upcoming World Cup, European Championship and World Championship.
Achievements:
- 2018: 3rd place as a team in Cadets European Championship
- 2019: Cadets European Champion
- 2021: 2nd place in the Junior World Cup (First in history)
- 2022-2023: 2nd place twice in the Junior European Championships (First in history)
Junior World Cup Champion
2nd and 3rd place in the Junior World Cup (First in history)
- 2023: 3rd place in the Junior World Cup
- 2024: 2nd place in Grand Prix (First in history)
Prof. Dr. Paul Krugman
Nobel Prize Winner Economist
Paul Krugman is a professor in the Department of Economics and International Relations at Princeton University...
Prof. Dr. Paul Krugman
Nobel Prize Winner Economist
Paul Krugman is a professor in the Department of Economics and International Relations at Princeton University and the London School of Economics and writes a column for the New York Times.
Initially starting writing for Fortune and Slate magazines, and later for Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, The Economist, Harper's and Washington Monthly, Prof. Dr. Krugman has been writing twice a week for the New York Times since 2000.
Winning the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2008 for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity, Prof. Dr. Krugman is known for his academic expertise in international economics, trade theory, economic geography and international finance.
In 2007, Prof. Dr. Krugman started writing for the Times magazine and published his book "The Great Unraveling" in 2003, in which he gathered his newspaper articles. Criticizing the Bush administration's economic and foreign affairs policies, the book became a US bestseller.
Publishing his book "The Conscience of a Libera", an economic commentary and critique of the 20th century USA, in 2007, Prof. Dr. Krugman has been writing a column titled "Global Economy" in Star Newspaper since 2011.
Prof. Dr. Philippe Aghion
Economist
Philippe Aghion is a professor at the College de France and the London School of Economics...
Prof. Dr. Philippe Aghion
Economist
Philippe Aghion is a professor at the College de France and the London School of Economics and a member of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Known for his research with a focus on growth economics, Aghion, together with Peter Howitt, pioneered the Schumpeterian Growth Paradigm, which was later used to analyze the design of growth policies and the role of the state in the growth process. He summarized this work in his co-authored books Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press, 1998) and The Economics of Growth (MIT Press, 2009), "Competition and Growth" (MIT Press, 2006) with Rachel Griffith, and "What Do We Learn from Schumpeterian Growth Theory?" with U. Akcigit and P. Howitt.
Aghion won the "Yrjo Jahnsson Prize for the best European economist under 45" in 2001 and the "John Von Neumann Prize" in 2009. In March 2020, he received BBVA "Frontiers of Knowledge Award" for his work with Peter Howitt on "a theory of economic growth based on innovation emerging from the process of creative destruction".
Refik Anadol
Artist
He completed his bachelor’s degree in photography and video at Istanbul Bilgi University. He graduated in 2009..
Refik Anadol
Artist
He completed his bachelor’s degree in photography and video at Istanbul Bilgi University. He graduated in 2009 with a double major in Visual Communication Design. In his work where he dressed the facade of Santral Istanbul with artificial intelligence, he realized the idea of "transforming the facade of an architectural structure into a canvas, using light as a material". With the release of the video, the project quickly became a global phenomenon.
After receiving his master’s degree in fine arts from Istanbul Bilgi University, he moved to the United States to attend the media arts program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received his second master’s degree. In 2014, his project titled “The Aether Project”, which he prepared as part of a course, was awarded the Microsoft Research Award and became the first art project to receive this award.
Founding his studio in 2015, Anadol exhibited his temporary installation titled "Infinity Room", which he created based on the question "if a computer's artificial intelligence was trying to create a space, where would it start?", at Zorlu Performing Arts Center in 2015. The Infinity Room project was then exhibited back-to-back at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Unlike his other works, the data sculpture titled Virtual Depictions, which is a permanent work, was opened in San Francisco, USA in 2015. This 15x30-meter work was considered "the world's first visual data sculpture".
In 2016, Anadol took part in the Google Artists and Machine Intelligence program and started using artificial intelligence as a tool of art.
Anadol opened his second exhibition in Türkiye in 2018. The works he developed using brain wave data collected at the University of California neurology laboratories were exhibited at Pilevneli Gallery under the title “Melting Memories”. In September of the same year, he created a new site-specific data sculpture animation and projection work at the Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's centennial season opening celebrations. WDCH Dreams, a 12-minute animation, used a series of digitally abstracted photographs, audio and video recordings from the archive of concert halls.
Continuing to develop works in various locations around the world, Anadol designed the audiovisual installation “Machine Hallucination” to be exhibited in 2019 in Artechouse, a digital art space created at the historic Chelsea Market in New York. In 2020, he developed the project "Quantum Memories" using artificial intelligence for the NGV Triennial at the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.
In 2021, he opened the exhibition "Machine Memoirs: Space" at Pilevneli Gallery in Istanbul. The exhibition showcased dynamic paintings and data sculptures created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory by blending two million data from telescopes sent into space with sound recordings from space and classical music. He also created a fifteen-minute AI cinema in which the audience can physically participate. Selected to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021, the artist's interactive installation titled "Alkazar Dreams" was opened to visitors at the former Alkazar Movie Theater in Beyoğlu in 2021.
Steve Wozniak
Apple Co-Founder, Computer Scientist
A Silicon Valley icon for more than three decades, Steve Wozniak shaped the computer industry with the design...
Steve Wozniak
Apple Co-Founder,
Computer Scientist
A Silicon Valley icon for more than three decades, Steve Wozniak shaped the computer industry with the design of Apple's first product line, the Apple I and II. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The following year, the Apple II personal computer was introduced, featuring a central processing unit, keyboard, color graphics and floppy disk drive. The Apple II marked a turning point in the personal computer industry.
Returning to UC Berkeley in 1981, Wozniak completed his degree in electrical engineering/computer science. For his achievements at Apple Computer, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology, the highest honor presented to the USA's leading innovators, in 1985 by the President of the United States.
In 2000, Wozniak was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and awarded the prestigious Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment for single-handedly designing the first personal computer and channeling his passion for mathematics and electronics into igniting educational enthusiasm in elementary school students and teachers.
He has significantly invested both his time and resources in education, providing hands-on training and donations of state-of-the-art equipment to students and teachers in the Los Gatos School District. Upon founding the Electronic Frontier Foundation, he became a founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.
Wozniak is currently serving as the Chief Scientist of Fusion-IO.
Steve Wozniak's life story iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon was published by Norton Publishing in September 2006 and became a New York Times bestselling autobiography.
Prof. Dr. Şevket Pamuk
Economics Historian
He is a retired faculty member of Boğaziçi University
Atatürk Institute and Department of Economics...
Prof. Dr. Şevket Pamuk
Economics Historian
He is a retired faculty member of Boğaziçi University Atatürk Institute and Department of Economics. Having lectured at many universities in Türkiye and abroad, Prof. Dr. Şevket Pamuk was a lecturer at the London School of Economics between 2008-2013. He directed the Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the same university. He served as president of the European Historical Economics Society and the Asian Historical Economics Society. Also acting as the editor of the European Review of Economic History journal, Prof. Dr. Pamuk is a member of the Science Academy and the European Academy of Sciences.
Some of the Turkish books by Prof. Dr. Pamuk who authored many articles on Ottoman-Turkish, the Middle East and European economics history in various languages are as follows:
- Dependence and Growth in the Ottoman Economy, 1820-1913 (1984)
- History of Ottoman-Turkish Economics 1500-1914 (1988)
- The History of Money in the Ottoman Empire (1999)
- Prices and Wages in Istanbul and Other Cities for 500 Years (2001)
- Ottoman Economy and Institutions (2007)
- Globalization, Economic Policies and Growth from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic (2008)
- Türkiye's 200-Year Economic History (2014 and 2023)
Şevval İlayda Tarhan
National Sports Shooter
She started sports shooting in 2015. She participated in her
first national team competition on the international...
Şevval İlayda Tarhan
National Sports Shooter
She started sports shooting in 2015. She participated in her first national team competition on the international arena in 2016.During the 2018 World Championships, she won the first medal in the history of women's shooting in Türkiye and became the Junior Women's World Champion. She broke the European Junior record at the European Championships in 2019, winning the gold medal and earning the European champion title.
At the 2019 Junior World Cup, she was crowned the world champion for the second time and broke her own European finals record. In 2023, she became the first woman to reach the final in the Senior category, a first in Turkish history. In the same competition, she received the bronze medal in the mixed team event with her teammate Yusuf Dikeç. At the 2023 World Shooting Championships, she took the silver medal in the mixed team event with her teammate Yusuf Dikeç.
In 2024, she was crowned the champion in the mixed team event with Yusuf Dikeç during the Olympic Qualification contest. In 2024, she became the world champion in the mixed team event with her teammate Yusuf Dikeç during the World Cup.
In 2024, she became the first shooter in the history of Türkiye to reach the Olympic final, where, together with her teammate Yusuf Dikeç, they equaled the Olympics record in the mixed team event to win the Olympic silver medal, another first for Türkiye.
Tarhan currently holds a total of 34 records in Turkish, European and Olympic games and events.
Prof. Dr. Ufuk Akçiğit
Economist, Academician
Born in Germany, Ufuk Akçiğit returned to his hometown
Bursa with his family when he was only four years old...
Prof. Dr. Ufuk Akçiğit
Economist, Academician
Born in Germany, Ufuk Akçiğit returned to his hometown Bursa with his family when he was only four years old. He continued to study here and ranked 26th in Türkiye and won a scholarship at Koç University, Department of Economics. In 2003, he received his bachelor's degree from this department and also won the Koç University President’s Special Award. Experiencing a successful university life, Akçiğit became an assistant for some courses. This experience led him to turn to academia and to do research for his PhD degree.
Following his graduation, he applied to and was accepted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Stanford and Yale Universities, all of which are well-known and globally successful universities. Akçiğit chose Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Akçiğit had the chance to be advised by MIT Institute Professor Daron Acemoğlu and received his PhD degree from MIT in 2009 with his thesis on Industrial Policy and Economic Growth. During the same year, Akçiğit started working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and moved to the University of Chicago in 2015. He was awarded the title of Associate Professor in 2018 and the title of Professor in 2019.
He was awarded the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for his achievements in macroeconomics in 2019. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and membership of the Econometric Society for his work in economics in 2021. He was awarded the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs by the Kiel Institute in Germany and Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award.
In his recent book, "The Economics of Creative Destruction," co-edited with John Van Reenen, he explores how technological innovation can drive growth and address challenges ranging from inequality to climate change. He also served as the lead academic for the World Development Report 2024, recently published by the World Bank, which focuses on addressing the challenges of the Middle-Income Trap.
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Afşin Yurdakul
Journalist
Afşin Yurdakul is an award-winning Turkish journalist and news anchor. During the last decade, she hosted...
Afşin Yurdakul
Journalist
Afşin Yurdakul is an award-winning Turkish journalist and news anchor. During the last decade, she hosted prime-time daily news programs and served as chief foreign editor at a leading private news network in Turkey. She reported extensively on global affairs and interviewed prominent Turkish and international figures. Afşin wrote about Turkey and the Middle East for a variety of publications, including The New York Times and Foreign Policy, among others. She moderated high level panels organized by the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum/Davos. Afşin holds an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. In 2018, she was selected as the inaugural Robert Long Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
Banu Yelkovan
Sports Writer, Commentator
Banu Yelkovan was born in İstanbul. After completing her high school education at Sainte Pulcherie and...
Banu Yelkovan
Sports Writer, Commentator
Banu Yelkovan was born in İstanbul. After completing her high school education at Sainte Pulcherie and Saint Michel, she graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in International Relations. During her university years, she entered the field of journalism with Milliyet newspaper and subsequently held roles as a reporter, translator, and editor in Sabah Group newspapers and magazines. In 2001, Banu Yelkovan started working as a sports columnist for Radikal Futbol. She became the first female editor-in-chief of FourFourTwo magazine. For an extended period, she hosted “Futbol Ekstra” on CNN Türk and collaborated on shows such as “Yenilsen de Yensen de”, “Veni Vidi Vici” and “B Planı” alongside Bağış Erten on NTV Sports. In 2020, she was chosen to participate in the IVLP and engaged in a one-month program alongside female sports journalists hailing from various parts of the world. Yelkovan, who maintains her role as a sports writer and commentator, displays a greater inclination toward the lighter, more cheerful aspects of football and the stories that often linger in the background, as opposed to its tactics and techniques.
Fatih Altaylı
Journalist
Altaylı started his career in journalism in 1982 as a sports reporter for Cumhuriyet newspaper before moving...
Fatih Altaylı
Journalist
Altaylı started his career in journalism in 1982 as a sports reporter for Cumhuriyet newspaper before moving to Güneş newspaper in 1986. He worked as editor-in-chief at Gelişim Publishing. In 1993, he co-founded Best FM, a private radio station.
In 1995, he moved to Kanal D and started the ‘Teke Tek’ program. Around the same time, he became a columnist at Hürriyet newspaper. He then left Kanal D and moved to Show TV. He continued his radio broadcasts on Show TV and Show Radio for a year. In the same year, he became the news editor at Show TV. In 1996, after leaving Show TV, he returned to Kanal D and started working for Doğan Broadcasting & Publishing Group. While working as a columnist at Hürriyet newspaper, he also worked as the general coordinator at Radyo D. In the summer of 2002, he was appointed news editor in chief at Kanal D.
In 2005, he left Hürriyet and joined Sabah newspaper. In 2006, he became Sabah’s editor-in-chief. In 2009, he started working as the editor-in-chief of Habertürk newspaper, but he resigned on March 29, 2014.
He currently writes columns on his website and produces content on the global and domestic agenda on his YouTube channel.
Deniz Bayramoğlu
Journalist
Deniz Bayramoğlu was born in 1975 in Malatya’s Pütürge district. He finished his primary and secondary education...
Deniz Bayramoğlu
Journalist
1975 yılında Malatya’nın Pütürge ilçesinde doğdu. İlk ve orta öğrenimini Rize’nin Pazar ilçesinde tamamladı. 1993 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Çevre Mühendisliği Bölümü’nde başladığı eğitimini, üç yıl sonra gazeteci olmak üzere yarıda bıraktı. 2005 yılında Çevre Mühendisliği Bölümü’ndeki üniversite eğitimine kaldığı yerden devam etti.
Gazeteciliğe 1995 yılında dış haberler muhabiri olarak başlayan Deniz Bayramoğlu, 1997 yılında Financial Times ile ortak çıkan Liberal Bakış gazetesine geçti ve burada borsa haberleri yaptı. Altı ay sonra döneminin en dikkat çeken gazetesi Yeni Yüzyıl’da borsa muhabiri olarak çalışmaya başladı. Yeni Yüzyıl’ın satılmasının ardından görevini Sabah gazetesinde sürdürdü. Ardından Yeni Binyıl gazetesinin kuruluşunda bulunarak, ekonomi editörü olarak görev yaptı. Yazılı basın kariyeri sırasında Türkiye’nin önde gelen şirketlerinin tepe yöneticileri, ekonomiden sorumlu bakanlar, Avrupa ve ABD’nin önde gelen şirketleri, ECB, FED, merkez bankası başkanları gibi ekonomi bürokrasisinden önemli isimlerle, tanınmış fon yöneticileriyle röportajlar yaptı. Ekonomi muhabiri olarak, çok sayıda meslek örgütü ve sivil toplum kuruluşu tarafından ödüle layık görüldü.
2000 yılında görsel basına geçti. 2000-2002 arasında CNN Türk televizyonunda borsa yorumcusu – muhabiri olarak görev aldı. 2002-2004 arasında Ahu Özyurt ile birlikte “İş Yemeği” programını hazırlayıp sundu. Aynı dönemde hurriyet.com.tr ile Finansal Forum ve Referans gazetelerinde borsa ve ekonomiyle ilgili yazıları yayımlandı. 2004-2006 yıları arasında 10 yıl sürdürdüğü ekonomi gazeteciliğine ara verip haber merkezinde çalışmaya ve CNN Türk’ün sabah haberlerini sunmaya başladı. 2006 yılında CNN Türk’ün marka siyaset-ekonomi programı “Parametre”yi Enis Berberoğlu, Bilal Çetin ve Erdal Sağlam gibi önemli isimlerle sundu. 2010-2012 arasında “Bugün” haber kuşağını hazırlayıp sunan Deniz Bayramoğlu, daha sonra Semiha Şahin ile birlikte CNN Türk’te “Güne Merhaba” programının sunuculuğunu üstlendi.
Suriye savaşının ilk yılında Halep’e giren ilk Türk gazeteciydi. Muhaliflerin 30 Şii hacı adayını rehin aldığı olayı, dünyaya ilk duyuran ve bu isimlerle ilk röportajları yapan gazeteci oldu.
2020 yılından bu yana Kanal D Ana Haber Bülteni’ni sunan Bayramoğlu, halen Milliyet gazetesinde haftada bir köşe yazısı kaleme alıyor. Deniz Bayramoğlu’nun Prof. Dr. Uğur Batı ile birlikte hazırladığı ve 2018 yılında yayımlanan “Üzgün İnsandan Özgün İnsana” isimli bir kitabı bulunuyor.
Serdar Turan
Journalist
After completing his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, he completed his master’s degree in business ...
Serdar Turan
Journalist
After completing his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, he completed his master’s degree in business administration. In 2000, he took part in the founding team of Infomag Publishing. Between 2005 and 2022, he was the Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek Türkiye. In 2011, Turan was involved in the establishment of the Turkish edition of Harvard Business Review and is currently the editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review Türkiye.
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