After graduating from Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Banking, Adnan Güzel, PhD, received his Master's and Doctorate degrees from the Money Banking Department of the Social Sciences Institute of Istanbul University. He worked as an Inspector, Manager and President in private and public banks for about 27 years. Actively traded in money and capital markets, regulated and coordinated the buying and selling principles of investment products (stocks, government bonds, treasury bills, foreign currency bonds, eurobonds, repo, private sector debt instruments, bank bonds, mutual funds, futures, gold). He founded and managed investment centers and investment funds, and served as the chairman of the fund board for about 20 years. He worked in the field of corporate finance, carried out corporate management and investor relations, carried out portfolio management tasks of fixed income securities and stock portfolios and many mutual funds with different contents. As the Project Leader, he carried out the public offering of many companies, initiated the first company valuation, took part in the establishment of the Izmir Futures and Options Exchange, and took part in the commission established for the establishment of Product Specialized Exchanges. He was the coordinator of the Money and Capital Markets working group established under the Banks Association of Turkey and the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency, a member of the Gold Working Group, and the head of the Securitization of Housing Loans working group, and was elected as an alternate member of the Ethics Committee of the Banks Association of Turkey. He took part in the establishment of many companies, established the first real estate investment trust company, and carried out control and coordination duties in order to ensure that 25 financial and non-financial Bank subsidiaries are managed in line with the principles of profitability and efficiency. In addition to his active duties at the bank, he simultaneously served as the General Manager of Vakıf Real Estate Investment Trust, Atakule Real Estate Investment Trust and Taksim Otelcilik for more than 4 years. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Member of the Board of Directors and Auditors at 12 different financial and non-financial companies since 1996. He is still a member of the Board of the Turkish Institutional Investor Managers Association, the Advisory Board of the Investor Magazine and a member of the Finance Association. He has attended many trainings in the field of banking and finance at home and abroad. Capital Markets holds advanced derivatives and corporate rating licenses. For more than five years, he made comments on financial markets, stock market, Turkish economy and banking on TRT Television, 2 days a week every week, and his current comments were published on the TRT homepage.
