Pınar KARADERE
Pınar Karadere is a highly skilled finance professional with an over-20 years experience in corporate governance, corporate structuring, financial control, budget&planning, operations, internal control and information systems in Banks and financial institutions. She performed as head of operations, top management official and management board member in Merrill Lynch Investment Bank Turkey and Merrill Lynch Securities Turkey. She fulfilled leadership role in establishment of operational infrastructure and achievement of maximum accuracy and transaction capacity in both organizations in line with national and global requirements.
Throughout her professional career, Pınar Karadere gained great experience in utilization and accounting of financial instruments, risk management, financial investment management and asset liability management in financial sector.
Since 2009, she also performed as advisor and financial teacher in Garanti Bankası, Yapı ve Kredi Bankası, QNB Finansbank, Denizbank and other financial organizations in the areas of derivative instruments and hedge accounting, Capital Markets Board derivative operations and many other financial instrument related topics.
Besides her career in finance area, she is a well-known author of award-winning book series on financial literacy sponsored by Türkiye Ekonomi Bankası (TEB) and several other books for financial awareness.
She is a graduate of Middle East Technical University, Department of Business Administration and fluent English speaker.