Evren Bolgün was born in 1972 in Ankara and completed his secondary education at the TED Ankara College. He has an undergraduate degree of M.Ü., BA, a master degree of Business Administration Faculty of Istanbul Technical University and a doctoral thesis at the M.Ü. Institute of Banking and Insurance titled "Establishing Risk Management Systems in Commercial Banks and Contribution of Calculated Market Risk to Banks’ Management Strategies".
Since 1994, he pursued a professional working life in brokerage houses and treasury departments of private banks while focusing on pricing and marketing financial derivative products. Between 2002 and 2005 he completed the risk management project Yapı Kredi Bank. Between 2005 and 2006 he conducted projects on Business Process Reengineering and Risk Management in Peppers & Rogers, an international consulting firm as a Management Consultant. Between 2006 and 2011 he continued as a Manager of İŞ Investment Risk Management Department. At the same time, he has been primarily responsible for customer’s interest, foreign exchange, liquidity risk measurement and management studies in accordance with relevant legislation of capital market. In 2007, he has taken an active role in Turkey’s first hedge fund where he stills acts as a manager.
He is an Associate Professor since 2008 and holds Advanced License Certificate and Derivative Products License Certificate both from the Capital Markets of Board of Turkey and the Bonds and Bills Licenses granted by the BIST (previously ISE). Since 2002, Dr. Bolgün teaches at undergraduate and graduate level at universities and published in academic journals, periodicals and some 200 articles in the newspapers.
