Emre Kesici received the B.S. degree in Business Administration from Bilkent University, the first Master’s degree in Money, Capital Markets, and Financial Institutions from Istanbul University, and the second Master’s degree in Finance from London Business School. He earned Ph.D. degree in Finance from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
Emre is Vice President at Citibank N.A. as a Quantitative Risk and Model Developer. He is a member of the Financial Management Association and a class ambassador of London Business School. Before his Ph.D. study, Emre has eight years of experience in securities market oversight and enforcement. Throughout his career at Capital Markets Board of Turkey, he participated and led projects regarding Turkish capital markets’ regulations, and prepared audit reports on insider trading, price and information-based manipulations, and asset price anomalies in Istanbul Stock Exchange, aka Borsa Istanbul. For three years, as a technical committee member of International Organization of Securities Commissions, he also participated in projects regarding intermediary business continuity and recovery planning programs with his colleagues from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, Ontario Securities Commission, and Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin). He was also a research fellow with the Secure AI and Autonomy Laboratory at UTSA.
Ph.D. in Finance, 2021
The University of Texas at San Antonio
MSc in Finance, 2017
London Business School
MSc in Economics, 2014
Istanbul University
BSc in Business Administration, 2007
Bilkent University