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Vedat Akgiray is currently a Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Applied Research in Finance at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkiye. He directed the doctoral program in finance from 1992 to 2009, the M.S. Program in Financial Engineering from 2002 to 2009. He has advised more than eighty graduate students, published and presented more than one hundred academic papers. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the Chairman of the Capital Markets Board of Turkey. He led the team designing and writing the new Capital Markets Law of 2012. During his tenure at the CMB, he also served on the IOSCO Board, the FSB of G20, and the Monitoring Board of the IFRS Foundation. He actively participated in re-designing the international regulatory architecture after the 2008 crisis. His current interests are in economic-value-based corporate governance, disclosure of sustainability issues, financial risks of climate change, emission trading systems, and digital disruptions in finance. His recent book “Good Finance” studies the causes of financial crises and proposes ways to transform finance into a “humane” discipline. He is currently working on a new book to explain the need for major foundational reforms in the financial system to accommodate new technologies.
Vedat Akgiray is currently a Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Applied Research in Finance at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkiye. He directed the doctoral program in finance from 1992 to 2009, the M.S. Program in Financial Engineering from 2002 to 2009. He has advised more than eighty graduate students, published and presented more than one hundred academic papers. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the Chairman of the Capital Markets Board of Turkey. He led the team designing and writing the new Capital Markets Law of 2012. During his tenure at the CMB, he also served on the IOSCO Board, the FSB of G20, and the Monitoring Board of the IFRS Foundation. He actively participated in re-designing the international regulatory architecture after the 2008 crisis. His current interests are in economic-value-based corporate governance, disclosure of sustainability issues, financial risks of climate change, emission trading systems, and digital disruptions in finance. His recent book “Good Finance” studies the causes of financial crises and proposes ways to transform finance into a “humane” discipline. He is currently working on a new book to explain the need for major foundational reforms in the financial system to accommodate new technologies.
