Ismail Ertürk joined Manchester Business School in 1987 after having completed his post-graduate studies at New York University and having worked in the banking sector in Istanbul. He received his high school diploma from Robert College, Istanbul in 1977 and his BSc in Economics from Middle East Technical University, Ankara in 1981.  He was Research Fellow on the relationship between Turkey and the EEC at Hull University, England between 1982-1983.  His responsibilities at Manchester Business School include teaching international finance and strategic finance on the MBA Programmes and Executive Centre courses.  He has also acted as Course Director of several banking programmes at the Executive Centre.  He is also involved in consultancy and executive education work.  He has been a regular contributor on the banking programmes of IBM International Education Centre in Belgium, France, Spain, Austria and Denmark. He has taught corporate and project finance on the executive programmes for British Telecom, Thales of France, Toronto Dominion of Canada, UCB of Belgium; and has taught bank risk management to managers from Lloyds-TSB. NatWest Bank, Standard Bank, South Africa.  He has acted as consultant to several international private and government organisations in the area of banking and finance. He is the corporate finance speaker on the Manchester-based World Academy of Sport programmes.  He designed and directed the first MBA programmes at Bilgi University, Istanbul, where he was recently invited to contribute in the design of curricula for the Cultural Management programmes.  He has visiting posts at ESCP-EAP, Paris and Stockholm School of Economics in St Petersburg.  His current research activities involve work on financialisation in present-day capitalism at the EU funded ESEMK project (European Socio-Economic Models of a Knowledge-Based Economy) and on cultural economics at CRESC (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change).  He has publications on political and cultural economy of finance.  He also regularly writes for cultural and economic journals in Turkey.
ismail.erturk@mbs.ac.uk