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Abdullah Akyuz |
Abdullah Akyuz joined TUSIAD (Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association) in 1999, as the President of TUSIAD's Washington Representative Office (TUSIAD-US Inc.). Mr. Akyuz's area of expertise includes financial markets, capital markets, government debt markets, international financial markets, asset management and corporate finance.
Between 1983-1990, Abdullah Akyuz served on the Capital Markets Board, the Turkish equivalent of the SEC, as an economist. In June 1990, he became the Director of the newly established Bonds and Bills Market of the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). In this capacity he led the "Bond Market" and "Repo Market" projects which became operational in 1991 and 1993, respectively. In May 1994, Mr. Akyuz became the Executive Vice-Chairman of the ISE. At the time of his departure from the ISE at the end of 1998, he was leading the operations of four departments: equity market, bonds and bills market, derivatives market and membership. Mr. Akyuz has also served as a Board Member of the ISE-Settlement and Custody Bank, Inc., as well as a member of the Undersecretariat of Treasury's "Domestic Borrowing Advisory Board".
Mr. Abdullah Akyuz was born in 1960 in Kayseri, Turkey and is a graduate of Galatasaray High School. Mr. Akyuz holds a B.A. degree in Economics and Finance from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Ankara (1983), an M.A. degree in Economics from the University of California-Davis (1986), and is a graduate of Wharton School's Advanced Management Program (1996). He has conducted extensive research in his field, and has over 15 publications.
He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife Sule and their son Yigit.
