Refet Gürkaynak
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| Nationality | Turkish | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Princeton University, Bilkent University | |||||||||||||
| Siblings | Gönenç Gürkaynak | |||||||||||||
Turkish economist who attended 2023 Bilderberg meeting. His brother, corporate lawyer Gönenç Gürkaynak, attended the 2015 Bilderberg meeting.
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Refet S. Gürkaynak is a Turkish economist associated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) [1][2][3] He attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting. His brother, corporate lawyer Gönenç Gürkaynak, attended the 2015 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
He has a BA from Bilkent University and a PhD from Princeton University, both in Economics.[1]
Career
He was an Economist at the Monetary Affairs Division of the Federal Reserve Board.[1]
Gürkaynak’s research interests are monetary economics, financial markets and international economics. In particular, he has worked on extracting information from asset prices that help answer monetary policy related questions.[1]
Refet S. Gürkaynak is Professor of Economics at Bilkent University and a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, where he is the director of the Monetary Economic and Fluctuations Program. He is a frequent consultant to various central banks.[1]
In June 2022, he organized a CEPR conference on "whether and in what ways digital currencies, de-fi, and the associated new technologies will change the way we think about monetary regimes and policy."[4]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2023 | 18 May 2023 | 21 May 2023 | Pestana Palace Hotel Lisbon Portugal | The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009. |
