Vice President 

Dr. Yaşar Akgün graduated from Turkey’s influential Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University in 1978. He started his career as Treasury Controller at the Turkish Treasury. With this job his main responsibilities were to conduct audits, examinations, inspections and investigations regarding financial regulations. Parallel to his bureaucratic engagements he realized academic studies. He obtained his MA degree on monetary economics from Northeastern University, ( Boston, USA, 1985), his PhD degree on currency convertibility from İstanbul University (1991) and his Associate Professor of Economic Policy title from the Inter-Universities Board of Turkey(1996). He made research on foreign exchange risk management in London, UK, (1988-89, one year).  Mr. Akgün taught Foreign Exchange Risk Management at Marmara University (1992-96). He served as Economic Counsellor to the Ambassador, Turkish Embassy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1996-99). He participated training on International Accounting and Auditing Standards at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, (July-October 2002). He served as a member of the Board of Directors at Telsim AŞ (currently Vodafone Turkey) responsible for financial management and external relations (Feb. 2004-May 2006). He had been Chairman of the Board of Treasury Controllers and Head of Audit Authority for EU Funds, the Turkish Treasury, since October 2007 before his appointment as Vice-President of the Bank on June 3rd, 2011.