Academic Staff

Dr. Küçüközmen has started his official career at the Central Bank of Turkey in 1986. He was granted Jean Monnet study-award and received his MSc degree on European Economics and Finance from Loughborough University, UK in 1995. He wrote his thesis on deposit insurance. He then worked for the Deposit Insurance Department at the Central Bank of Turkey during 1996-1997. He was granted a scholarship from the Central Bank covering a two-year research in 1997. He conducted his doctoral research at the University of Exeter. He wrote his thesis on the “Distribution of Equity Returns and Implications for Value-at-Risk (VaR)” and awarded a PhD degree in 2000. He ran a banking course in the MBA program of Exeter University during his research. Upon completing his research, he joined to the BRSA the supervisory body for the Turkish banking system in 2000, shortly after its establishment and worked there as a deputy head of department of risk management. Dr Küçüközmen also taught at the FSI of BIS between 2002 and 2009. After returning to his position in the Central Bank of Turkey, he then received the title of associate professor from the Inter-University Council, which led him to academic life after 2010. He taught as a part-time lecturer at the Financial Mathematics Department of the Institute of Applied Mathematics in Middle East Technical University, Ankara between 2001 and 2012. He also taught graduate courses in Real Estate Development at Ankara University, Faculty of Science, between 2009 and 2010. Currently, Prof. Dr. Küçüközmen is a full time lecturer at the Faculty of Business of Izmir University of Economics. He is the founding member and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Finance Association. His interests include non-financial sector risk management, risk management through data visualization, Basel-III, large data and graphic data mining, sovereign wealth funds and private equity funds, e-commerce and international business strategies.

Birce Tedik Kocakaya graduated from Hacettepe University Business Administration Department in 2019 with a 3.83 GPA. She worked as a tax assistant in an audit company for about one year. She is studying for a Master's degree in Accounting & Finance at Dokuz Eylul University.

Gülin Vardar completed her undergraduate work in the Faculty of Architecture and Department of City and Regional Planning in 2002. During her undergraduate years, she participated in many projects in the field of urbanism in Turkey and abroad. She had worked as a financial consultant in a company and in the finance department of a private company. She had received her MBA degree from Izmir University of Economics in 2005. In the same year, Vardar started her PhD degree at İzmir University of Economics and was appointed as research assistant at the International Trade and Finance Department of the same university. During her PhD, she went to the University of Texas at Dallas as a "Visiting Researcher", where she had done doctoral research with a scholarship from TUBITAK. Vardar has successfully completed her Ph.D. and was awarded the title of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Business Administration majoring in the field of finance, with a thesis entitled "Risk Measurements and Efficiency Analysis for Public Banks on Central and Eastern European Stock Market Markets" in 2010. Vardar had become an assistant professor in 2012 and awarded the title of associate professor by the Interuniversity Council in 2015. She is currently Head of Department of International Trade and Finance at Izmir University of Economics. Assoc. Prof. Gülin Vardar has many articles in the fields of financial markets and banking, and book chapters within the textbooks, on both national and international levels.

Birce Dobrucalı completed her high school education in İzmir Bornova Anadolu High School. She studied International Trade and Finance in Izmir University of Economics where she received her bachelor’s degree as honor student. She began to work as research assistant at the department of International Trade and Finance in December 2015. Ms. Dobrucalı received her MSc in Logistics Management degree in 2016. In 2021, Ms. Dobrucalı received her Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from Dokuz Eylul University.

Berna Aydoğan completed her high school education with a high honor degree in Selma Yiğitalp Süper Lisesi, in 1999. Berna Aydoğan attended Ege University, where she received a B.A. Degree in Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 2004 in Izmir-Turkey. During 2001-2004, she received a Scholarship of Achievement from Koç Holding. She completed the University as the 3rd student in Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and the 2nd student in the Business Administration Department. She got a Ph.D. Degree from the Department of Business Administration in a major field of finance at Izmir University of Economics in 2010. Aydoğan, who became Assistant Professor in 2012, Associate Professor in 2017 and Professor in 2022, still continues to work in the Department of International Trade and Finance. Her research is focused on financial and derivatives markets. Her academic papers have been published in international and national journals.