Özgür Demirtaş

Turkish economist (born 1976)

Born

Kemal Özgür Demirtaş

(1975-08-12) August 12, 1975 (age 50)

OccupationProfessor of Finance

EducationBoğaziçi University (B.S.)
Boston College (PhD)

Prof. Dr. Özgür Demirtaş

Born	Kemal Özgür Demirtaş (1975-08-12) August 12, 1975 (age 50) Ankara, Turkey
Occupation	Professor of Finance

Academic background
Education	Boğaziçi University (B.S.) Boston College (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Economist
Sub-discipline	Financial economics Asset pricing

Kemal Özgür Demirtaş (born August 12, 1975, Ankara) is a Turkish Finance Professor.

Academic career

Demirtas graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Boğaziçi University in 1998. He received his Ph.D. degree in finance from Boston College in 2003.^[1]

He began his career at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), as a tenure track Assistant Professor in 2003. He was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor at Baruch (CUNY) in 2007. He joined Sabancı University in 2012. Demirtas was appointed as the Founding Chairman of Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) in 2014.^[2]

Publications

He published papers in Management Science, Journal of Financial Economics Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. His book on private equity funds was published by Academic Press. He co-authored a short book entitled Investing in hedge funds: a guide to measuring risk and return characteristics.^[3]

Professional Activity

He consulted Natural Disaster Insurance Institution.^[4] He was appointed as the Founding Chairman of the Center of Excellence in Finance established at Sabanci University. He served as a board member in Akbank, Turkey for three terms until 2023.^[5] He is a founding board member at FODER, Turkey's first financial literacy association.^[6]

Personal

He is married to Neslihan Küçükoğlu Demirtaş and they have one child.^[7]

References

↑ "Professor Ozgur Demirtas". Speaker Agency UK. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
↑ "Sabanci Business School Faculty Member Ozgur Demirtas".
↑ Weigert, Florian (February 1, 2017). "Turan G. Bali, Yigit Atilgan, and K. Ozgur Demirtas: Investing in hedge funds: a guide to measuring risk and return characteristics". Financial Markets and Portfolio Management. 31 (1): 113–115. doi:10.1007/s11408-016-0284-6. ISSN 2373-8529.
↑ "K. Ozgur Demirtas" (PDF).
↑ "Akbank üst yönetiminde değişiklik! Özgür Demirtaş istifa etti... Nedenini açıkladı".
↑ "CEF – Center of Excellence in Finance". cef.sabanciuniv.edu (in Turkish). Archived from the original on January 5, 2022. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
↑ "Özgür Demirtaş Kimdir, Kaç Yaşında ve Nereli? Prof. Dr. Özgür Demirtaş'ın Hayatı". Onedio (in Turkish). Retrieved May 15, 2023.

Publications

Professional Activity

Personal

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