Professor Bulent Gultekin is a professor of finance at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches Advanced Corporate Finance and The Finance of Buyouts and Acquisitions. He is renowned for his work in corporate finance and capital markets, economic development and privatization. He was the Governor of Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Chief Adviser to the Ministry of Privatization in Poland, Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister of Turkey. He is the Director of Emerging Economies Program at Wharton, and Co-Director of Center for International Financial Research.