Erdem Başçı

Erdem Başçı   (central banker)
Born	1966 Ankara, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Alma mater	TED Ankara College, Middle East Technical University, Bilkent University, Johns Hopkins University
Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey from 2011-2016  Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey  In office April 19, 2011 - April 19, 2016 Succeeded by Murat Çetinkaya

Erdem Başçı is a Turkish economist and the former Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey in 2010s.

Early life

He was born in 1966 in Ankara. After finishing the high school at TED Ankara College in 1983, Erdem Başçı was educated in electrical engineering at the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ), and graduated 1987 with a bachelor's degree. He received master's degrees in 1989 in business administration, and in 1990 in economics from Bilkent University, and in 1993 in economics from the Johns Hopkins University. In 1995, Erdem Başçı earned a PhD degree in economics from Bilkent University.

He worked between 1995 and 2003 as a member of the teaching staff at the Bilkent University, from 1999 on as an associate professor of economics.

Central banking

Başçı was appointed deputy governor of the Central Bank of Turkey on 9 October 2003. He was reconfirmed at this post on 10 October 2008. Erdem Başçı was appointed governor on 14 April 2011, succeeding Durmuş Yılmaz.

After ending his official five-year term, Başçı was succeeded on 19 April 2016 by his deputy Murat Çetinkaya.

He was appointed as the permanent representative of OECD on May 20, 2016. He held the ambassadorial post until March 2021. As of September 2021, he has been a faculty member of the Economics department at TED University.

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