Prof. Dr. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin is a Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Türkiye) and served as a part-time professor at Yeditepe University between 2011 and 2014. Professor Bilgin has numerous articles published in reputable international journals indexed by scientific databases, as well as research papers presented at international conferences, and academic books. He is the founder of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and currently serves as its Chairman. Additionally, he founded an international scholarly association called EBES (Eurasia Business and Economics Society) and currently serves as its Vice President. Professor Bilgin has also been active as a consultant in several institutions, a newspaper columnist, and has appeared in several television programs.
Dr. Hakan Danis works at CitiBank. Prior to this position, he was Director in Economic Scenarios and OpRisk Modeling at US Bank and MUFG (USA), and worked as a Senior Economist at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the USA. He is one of the founders and the first President of EBES. Additionally, he worked as a research assistant at Kadir Has University (Türkiye). Dr. Danis has published articles in many leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Managing Editor of the Eurasian Economic Review, a Springer Journal indexed in SCOPUS. He has been a guest editor at Emerging Markets Finance & Trade (EMFT) (SSCI) and Singapore Economic Review (SER) (SSCI) multiple times, and has published several academic books. His current research and teaching interests include monetary policy, nonlinear applied time series, risk management in financial institutions, and macroeconomics.
Ender Demir is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Business Administration, School of Social Sciences at Reykjavik University (Iceland). He has been teaching at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Yeditepe University (part-time), and Istanbul Bilgi University (part-time) in Türkiye. Dr. Demir is the conference coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economic Society (EBES). He serves as an associate editor at Eurasian Business Review (SSCI) and as a subject editor at the Journal of Multinational Financial Management (SSCI). He has published his research in peer-reviewed international journals, including the Journal of Financial Stability, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Tourism Management. His research interests include corporate finance, cryptocurrencies, financial economics, and tourism economics.
Ege Yazgan is a Professor of Economics, currently serving as the interim Rector of Istanbul Bilgi University (Türkiye) and the Director of the Center for Financial Studies (CEFIS). His research areas include applied econometrics, time series, monetary policy, and macroeconometrics.