N. Bulent Gultekin

Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Professor Gultekin has been on the faculty of the Finance Department of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania since 1981. He taught at the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and University of Chicago before he joined the Wharton School. He was a visiting professor at Koc University, INSEAD, Bogazici University, and University Paris at Dauphine. He received B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Robert College, MBA from Bogazici University, and Ph.D. from the Wharton School.

He was the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Chief Advisor to Prime Minister Turgut Özal, and President for Mass Housing and Public Participation Administration in Turkey, a state agency in charge of housing and urban development, large scale infrastructure projects, and the privatization program of the Turkish Government. He also served as an advisor for Turgut Ozal when he became president.

He served as the Chief Advisor to the Minister of Privatization in Poland during 1989-1991. He was a policy advisor to the governments of Indonesia, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Russian Federation, and to the presidents Nursultan Nazerbaev, and Islam Karimov.

He served as a senior advisor to the USAID, EBRD, International Finance Corporation, the World Bank, Istanbul Stock Exchange, OECD, UNDP, and Capital Markets Board of Turkey. He was a consultant for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley & Co., Rothchild & Cie, IBM, Merck and Co., Citicorp, Chemical Bank, Barclays Bank, and Merrill Lynch, Namura Securities, Institute of Banking of the Saudi Monetary Agency, Arab National Bank in Riyadh, and the Dubai World.

He was the Chairman of the Board of Sumerbank, a state owned conglomerate with 35,000 employees and a director on the boards of Emlak Bank, Westergaard Fund, and Bell Atlantic Mutual Funds.

He is currently on the boards of Grossman Currency Fund Ltd, Grossman Macro Fund, BlueOrchard, and Oasis Capital.

He is a founding trustee of the Koc University, Foundation of Ownership Changes in Warsaw, International Institute of Business in Kiev, and a former trustee of the American University in Bulgaria and the International Business School in Moscow.