Erkin Şahinöz

Born in Istanbul, Erkin Şahinöz completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Boğaziçi University. In the US, on a scholarship at the University of Nebraska, he first earned an MBA and then completed graduate studies in economics at the same university. In 2002 Şahinöz received the award for the most successful young businessman in the state of Nebraska. He began his professional career in 1999 as a Research Assistant, and from 2000 to 2002, at Business Development Center, a US national consulting firm, he advised companies across a wide range of sectors and industries, from banks to the real sector. The firms he advised include First National Bank of Omaha, Oberon Entertainment Properties, American Title, Ashley Furniture and Ryan Enterprises. In 2002 he was recruited as an economist by the US Federal Reserve (FED). With a financial model he developed using options to forecast central banks’ interest rate changes, he was promoted and appointed Director of the Economic Research Group at the FED. In 2007 he returned to Turkey and set up the Strategy Coordination and Business Development department at Arıkanlı Holding, which includes Yurtiçi Kargo. In 2009 he was appointed General Manager for Turkey of Erste Bank, Austria’s largest bank. Building the Turkey operations from scratch, he provided brokerage/investment banking services to foreign and domestic institutional investors with investments in Turkey. He has managed the corporate finance and IPO processes of many companies. Şahinöz writes columns for many national magazines and newspapers, above all Dünya newspaper. He also regularly provides economic and market commentary on TV channels such as NTV, CNN Türk, TRT Haber and TGRT. In addition, since September 2018 he has been hosting the program Ekoparazit. Providing consultancy to many real-sector companies in risk management, efficiency, strategy development and finance, Erkin Şahinöz also serves as an independent board member at several companies. He also delivers training and provides consultancy to banks and real-sector companies in a wide range of areas.