A. Ussal Şahbaz

A native of Ankara, Ussal Sahbaz graduated from Harvard Kennedy School with a master`s degree in public administration and international development program in May 2010. He holds a BS degree from the Middle East Technical University and an MA from Bilkent University, both in economics. He also worked as a consultant to the World Bank in Washington D.C. on investment climate, competition policy and special economic zones areas. He has worked as a competition economist at Turkish Competition Authority since 2005. Since October 2010, Ussal Sahbaz runs TEPAV`s projects on entrepreneurship and private equity, in Turkey as well as abroad in South Caucuses, Middle East and South Asia.