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Selim Yazıcı is Professor of Management and Strategy at Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences. His research spans FinTech, InsurTech, Entrepreneurship, Platform Economies, and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

He is co-founder of FinTech Istanbul and designed Turkey’s first “FinTech 101 Training Program.” He has been Adjunct Professor at Özyeğin and Sabancı Universities on Financial Technologies. Between 2018–2024 he served on the Boards of İş Leasing and İş Girişim (İş Bank Group), chairing Audit and Corporate Governance Committees.

He is the author of Learning Organizations (2001), Business Continuity Management (2013), and editor of FinTech & InsurTech ile Finansın Dönüşümü (2021). Member of the Academy of International Business (AIB).

C. Coşkun Küçüközmen is Professor of Banking, Trade and Finance at the Department of International Trade and Finance, Izmir University of Economics. He began his career at the Central Bank of Turkey in 1986.

He received his MSc in Banking from Loughborough University (UK) on a Jean Monnet scholarship, and his PhD from Exeter University (UK) on the distribution of equity returns and Value-at-Risk, where he also taught in the MBA banking program.

He served as Deputy Head of Risk Management at the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) of Turkey (2000–2005), taught at the Financial Stability Institute of the BIS (2002–2009), and at Middle East Technical University (2001–2012). He has over 550 international academic citations.

Dr. Michael Salmony is an internationally recognised leader on digital financial services innovation: Payments, Open Finance, FinTech, Digital Identity, and CBDC. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge (first-class honours).

He is a board-level advisor to major international banks, the European Commission, ECB, European Parliament, and central banks worldwide. For a decade he served as Executive Adviser to the Board of Worldline Financial Services, which processes over €17 trillion per year.

He works with the World Bank in Central Asia, serves on the Advisory Board of Mastercard in Latin America, and teaches at the Oxford Business School on “AI in Fintech and Open Banking.” Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). His work has been translated into 12+ languages.