Refet Gürkaynak

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(economist)
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NationalityTurkish
Alma materPrinceton University, Bilkent University
SiblingsGönenç Gürkaynak
Turkish economist who attended 2023 Bilderberg meeting. His brother, corporate lawyer Gönenç Gürkaynak, attended the 2015 Bilderberg meeting.

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

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/202318 May 202321 May 2023Pestana 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.
Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.


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