Activities - Prize Competition for Research on History of Banking and Finance 2002

THE JURY

Prof. Dr. Edhem Eldem
Bogaziçi University
Department of History
Member of Faculty

Graduated from the Department of Political Sciences of Bogaziçi University in 1982. After receiving his master's degree at the same university, he completed his doctoral work in 1989 at Université de Provence, Aix Marseille I. Prof. Eldem, currently a faculty member at the Department of History at Bogaziçi University, has conducted extensive research at Ottoman Bank Archives since 1989. He has published numerous books and papers on Ottoman economic and social history in 18th and 19th centuries.


Ergun Özen
Garanti Bank
General Manager and CEO

Graduated from the Department of Economics of the New York State University in 1985, Mr. Özen started his career in the research department of Is Bank, where he undertook the foundation of the Treasury. In 1992, he joined Garanti Bank and first worked in the Treasury Department and then undertook a managerial position in 1994. One year later, he was appointed as the Vice President responsible for Treasury and Investment Banking, while attending the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School. Mr. Özen is the President and C.E.O. of Garanti Bank since April 2000.


Orhan Silier
History Foundation
General Secretary

Graduated from the Department of Economics and Statistics of Middle East Technical University in 1970. Taught and conducted research at the Middle East Technical, Marburg, Bremen and Kassel universities. He served as the founding president of the Turkish Division of the Institute of International Social History in Amsterdam (1987-1990) and as the Vice President of the Conference of Historians of International Labour (1993-1999). Silier is also a founding member of the History Foundation and has been serving as its secretary general since 1991.


Prof. Dr. Sevket Pamuk
Bogaziçi University
Atatürk Institute and Department of Economics
Member of Faculty

After graduating from Yale University and completing his doctoral work at University of California (Berkeley), he taught at Ankara, Middle East Technical, Pennsylvania, Villanova, Princeton, Michigan (Ann Arbor), Ben Gurion universities. A board member of the International Economic History Association, presently a faculty member at the Department of Economics of Bogaziçi University and the Director of the Atatürk Institute, Prof. Pamuk has published numerous books and papers on the economic history of the Ottoman Empire and of the Republic of Turkey.


Prof. Dr. Murat Çizakça
Fatih University
Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences
Dean

Graduated from the Department of Economics at Leicester University (UK) in 1968; completed his master's (1974) and doctoral (1978) work at the University of Pennsylvania. After serving as a member of faculty at the Department of Economics in Bogaziçi University, he retired even though he continues to teach in Bogaziçi on Comparative Economic and Finance History. Prof. Çizakça assumed the position of Dean at the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Fatih University. Prof. Çizakça is a member of the Advanced Research Institute of Berlin and the author of about 50 scientific papers and 5 books published in Turkey and abroad. His work has been cited over 100 times internationally.


Prof. Dr. Seyfettin Gürsel
University of Galatasaray
Department of Economics
Member of Faculty

Graduated from the Faculty of Economics (1973) and Institute of Political Science (1974) of Grenoble University. Completed his master's (1975) and doctoral work (1979) in economics at Nanterre University, Paris. From 1980 to 1983, Prof. Gürsel taught at Istanbul University, then took management posts in the private sector. A founding member of Political, Economic and Social Research Foundation of Turkey, currently he is the chairman of the Department of Economics of Galatasaray University. Prof. Gürsel is the author of several books and papers, published in Turkey and abroad on political economy, economic policy, labour economics and the economic history of the Ottoman Empire and of the Republic of Turkey.

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