Keynote Speaker

Prof. Dr. Erhan Aslanoğlu

İstanbul Bilgi University, Türkiye

Keynote Speech I · Thursday, 22 October 2026, 10:30 · Senate Room

Keynote title: “Banking and Finance in an Age of Global Uncertainty”

Prof. Dr. Erhan Aslanoğlu is a faculty member in the Department of Economics at İstanbul Bilgi University, where he also serves as Director of the Financial Application Center and Advisor to the Rector. He received his BA and MSc in Economics from Middle East Technical University, an MA in Economics from the University of Reading (UK) as a Jean Monnet scholar, and his PhD in Economics from Marmara University. He served at Marmara University until 2015, becoming full Professor in 2011, and later at Piri Reis University, where he was Vice Rector (2015–2024) and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (2016–2019). His research focuses on macroeconomics, money and banking, and the Turkish and world economies. He has also contributed extensively to executive training programmes for the banking and capital markets sector, including those of the Banks Association of Turkey.

Prof. Dr. Anis Samet

American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Keynote Speech II · Friday, 23 October 2026, 10:00 · BEA-5

Keynote title: “How Banks Respond to Changing Interest Rates: New Evidence and Emerging Challenges”

Prof. Dr. Anis Samet is a Professor of Finance at the American University of Sharjah (AACSB accredited), where he holds the Bank of Sharjah Endowed Chair. He holds a PhD from HEC Montréal, Canada, and is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) with the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) certificate from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Before joining AUS, he worked as a risk management advisor at the Quebec Pension Fund (CDPQ), one of the largest institutional investors in Canada. He has published in leading finance journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Emerging Markets Review, Journal of Financial Research and Journal of International Money and Finance. His research interests include banking, sustainable finance and climate risk, international finance, liquidity, corporate governance, financial risk management, Islamic finance and financial econometrics. He has delivered training in banking, risk management, financial econometrics, portfolio management and corporate governance to several institutions.