Born in Manisa/Turkey in 1958. Graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 1980 and completed her graduate studies at the same faculty. Ms. PEKCAN started her professional career at TSKB- Industrial Development Bank of Turkey in 1981 and served as General Manager and Board Member of different companies. In harmony with her professional achievements, Ms. PEKCAN played important roles in NGOs. She was the Co-Chairperson of Turkish-Syrian Business Council, Board Member of Turkish-Libyan and Turkish-Iraq Business Councils. Moreover, Ms. PEKCAN undertook active roles about creating awareness and promoting women entrepreneurship in Turkey. In that vein, She served as the Vice Chairwoman of Woman Entrepreneurs’ Board of TOBB (The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchange of Turkey), member of Istanbul Women Entrepreneurs Committee in ITO (Istanbul Chamber of Commerce), Board Member of Woman Entrepreneurs of ECO-CCI (Economic Cooperation Organization Chamber of Commerce and Industry). Ms. PEKCAN received the IWEC (International Women Entrepreneur Challenge) award, which was given by Barcelona/Manhattan/New Delhi chamber of commerce in 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Moreover, she was selected as the Global Ambassador of IWEC (International Women Entrepreneur Challenge) in 2012. She is one of the founding members of BPW (Business Professional Women) Istanbul Club. Ms. PEKCAN speaks English, she is married with two children. On July 10th 2018, she was appointed as the Minister of Trade at the 1st cabinet of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Born in Ankara in 1964, Birol Küle graduated from the Economics Department of the Hacettepe University and completed his post-graduate degree in Banking and Finance at the Bilgi University. From 1992, when he entered into professional life, to 2010, he worked at different participation banks, after which he took office at the Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (SDIF) as the Head of Collection Department. Following this position, he was appointed as a member to the Capital Markets Board (CMB), where he served as Deputy Chairman and Investor Compensation Center member. Birol Küle was appointed as the Chairman of the Competition Board with the Presidential Decision no 2019/368, published in the Official Gazette dated November 2, 2019. Küle played an active role in the collection of non-performing loans under the (SDIF) for the public as well as in the preparation of the secondary legislation changing the market structure following the entry into force of the Capital Markets Law no 6362, and he has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of banking, financial markets, regulation and supervision. Birol Küle is married with three children, and has a good command of English.

Dr. Faik Metin TİRYAKİ graduated from the Ankara University Faculty of Law in 2001. He has a master’s degree from the Civil Law Department of the same university. He completed his doctorate studies at the Civil Law Department of the Ankara University, with a thesis titled “Securitization of Credit Receivables Collateralized by Mortgage”. Following his law internship, he worked as a lawyer for a short time, following which he took office as an Assistant Expert Lawyer at the Capital Markets Board, where he served as Assistant Expert Lawyer, Expert Lawyer, Chief Expert Lawyer and Assistant Department Head at the Supervision Department. He was appointed as the Head of the Capital Markets Board’s Legal Consultancy Department in November 2018. Between 2014 and 2019, he represented the Capital Markets Board in the IOSCO C4&SG committee, which is responsible for supervision. On 18.02.2020 he was appointed as the Vice-President of the Competition Authority. Faik Metin TİRYAKİ is married with two children, and he is fluent in English.

Lina Khan is an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches and writes about antitrust law and infrastructure industries. Before joining Columbia, Khan served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, where she helped lead the Subcommittee’s investigation into digital markets. Khan’s scholarship has been published by the Harvard Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. The New York Times has described Khan’s work as having “reframed decades of monopoly law” and Politico has called her “a leader of a new school of antitrust thought.” Her article “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” was awarded the 2018 Antitrust Writing Award for “Best Academic Unilateral Conduct Article” and her article “The Separation of Platforms and Commerce” won the 2019 Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund’s Best Antitrust Article on Remedies. Khan’s scholarship has also been profiled or discussed by the Atlantic, Bloomberg, Economist, Financial Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, and she has been named to the Politico 50, Foreign Policy Magazine’s “Global Thinkers,” The Prospect’s “Top 50 Thinkers,” WIRED25, National Journal 50, and Time Magazine’s “Next Generation Leaders.” Previously, Khan was a legal advisor in the office of Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the Federal Trade Commission and legal director at the Open Markets Institute. She is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School.

Teresa Moreira, Head, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development since 5 October 2016, previously served as Consumer Director-General of Portugal from January 2010 to September 2016 and as a Member of the Board of the Portuguese Competition Authority (March 2003/March 2008) when it was first established. She also served as Portugal's Director-General and Deputy Director General for International Economic Relations, and held senior positions at the former Directorate-General for Competition. She worked for 20 years as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon in the areas of International Economic Law and European Law as well as of European Competition Law and European Economic Law (graduate studies). Teresa Moreira holds a Law Degree and a Masters' Degree in European Law (European Competition Law) by the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Mrs. BAGIS AKKAYA is the Head of Department of Strategy Development and Acting Head of Department of External Relations and Competition Advocacy. And she has been working for the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) for 22 years. She has a broad experience in handling merger & acquisition, cartel and abuse of dominance cases. She worked as an Economy Editor in the Turkish Daily News before joining the Authority. After graduating from Ankara University Faculty of Political sciences, she received a master’s degree in European Union Law in University of Essex with distinction. She has been a member of Scientific Committee of Turin School of Regulation (Italy) since 2012 and been teaching competition and regulation and digital economy in the same school. She is also teaching digital economy in Atilim University, Ankara. She has been giving seminars in various international universities on digital economy in the last 10 years and has an extensive knowledge on competition, regulation and platform economy.

Ms. Juliana Latifi was elected as the Chairwoman of the Competition Authority by the Albanian Parliament in December 2016.
Ms. Latifi holds the scientific title “Prof. Dr.” and has an extensive academic background as a professor of Private law and Commercial law including the author of a number of university books and scientific articles, both in Albania and internationally.
For several years Ms. Latifi has held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Business Law at Tirana Business University and the Head of the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law Tirana University.
Having a long career in the Albanian public administration, the previous three years as the legal adviser to the parliamentary group of the Socialist Party, Ms. Latifi also led one of the working groups within the legal reform in Albania in the framework of the approximation of Albanian legislation with that of the EU.
Part of her professional background includes various engagements with international organizations both in Albania and abroad as a legal expert in the field of drafting legal acts, conducting studies, providing recommendations and legal opinions.

Ebru Gökçe Dessemond is an economist at Competition and Consumer Policies Branch (CCPB) of UNCTAD since 2006. She is responsible for preparing and servicing the annual sessions of Intergovernmental Group of Experts (IGE) on Competition Law and Policy, and IGE on Consumer Protection Law and Policy. She develops and implements technical assistance and capacity building projects for developing countries. In the past, she worked as a project officer for UNCTAD projects for Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Tanzania, and the Middle East and North Africa region. She conducts research in competition and consumer protection areas and coordinates UNCTAD Research Partnership Platform. Prior to joining UNCTAD, she worked at the current Ministry of Trade of Turkey.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (1993-1997), and a Master of Arts degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (2001-2003).
She speaks Turkish, English, French and Spanish.

Ms. Hassan has assumed charge as Chairperson of the Commission on July 14, 2020. Ms. Hassan has over 25 years of experience with over 8 years in public service. She has earlier served as one of the founding members (2007-2010) and also as Chairperson of the Commission (2010-2013). She studied Law at King’s College London and was awarded the L.L.M. degree. For the last 7 years she has been in private practice, as Senior Partner of Islamabad based law firm. Prior to her current appointment she was also serving as Member of the Audit Oversight Board, Independent Director/ Chairperson Pakistan LNG Limited and has held independent directorships on the boards including the Pakistan Stock Exchange and various other listed companies. Previously, in 2001, Ms. Rahat Kaunain Hassan also served as General Counsel/Executive Director at the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan. During her previous term, the competition law transitioned from Ordinance into an act and CCP witnessed peak enforcement against cartels and other anticompetitive practices. She has authored co-authored numerous orders, position papers, guidelines, policy notes on important issues of competition law and policy. She was instrumental in the establishment of the Office of Fair Trading within CCP and Under her leadership CCP was twice nominated/short listed amongst top 5 agencies for GCR Enforcement Agency of the year Award’ out of 42 agencies in the region of Asia Pacific Middle East and Africa, by the Global Competition Review. Ms. Hassan was recognized as one of 100 successful women in anti-trust globally Global Competition Review in 2013. She has the honor of being nominated/recommended for Sitara-e-Imtiaz for her work, both by her predecessor and her successor at CCP.

Farrukh Karabaev has rejoined to newly established Antitrust Committee (Competition Authority) of the Republic of Uzbekistan as Deputy Chairman with 14 years of progressive work experience in government agencies and global development organization, which has armed him with high quality expertise and knowledge of the best international practices in elaboration of institutional innovations, implementation of structural and regulatory reforms, focused on such key policy areas as economic development, good governance, public administration, competition and regulatory policy and investment climate enhancement. He has held various mid- and senior management positions at State competition authority, National Agency for Project Management under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPM) and UNDP. Beside these, he was a member of government working group responsible for implementation of reforms for enhancement of business environment and investment climate, scrutinizing annual Doing Business Surveys results, assessing the business regulations and their enforcement across the country, and developing measures to reduce regulatory burden on business. Expertise: Competition policy, Regulatory Policy, Good Governance, Regulatory Impact Assessment, Anti-corruption compliance, Public Administration Reform, Lawmaking and Rulemaking Enhancement, Private - Public Partnership, Doing Business and Business Climate Assessment | Business development, M&A, Consumer Policy, Marketing.

In 1996 graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Fine Chemical Technology majoring in biotechnology, in 1999 - graduated from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation majoring in marketing. Has been working in the antimonopoly bodies since 2000, starting career as an expert at the electric power industry division of the Department for Regulation of Fuel-and-Energy Complex, Transport and Communications, Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy of Russia. In September 2015, was appointed Head of the Department for Regulation of Telecommunications and Information Technology of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation.

Kübra Erman KARACA, CTO (Chief Technology Officer), TFI Tab Food Investments. Ms. Karaca graduated from Mathematics Department and completed her master’s degree on Computer Engineering at Ege University. She worked as a research assistant at Ege University Computer Engineering Department between 1983 and 1984. After the progress in the banking sector towards IT in mid-eighties, in November 1984, she joined Bilpa, the technology firm of Yapı Kredi Bank, which introduced online banking in our country. She worked actively as an application software expert and system programmer in the development of our country’s first banking system. In 1987, Karaca joined Garanti Bank’s technology firm Garanti Teknoloji, as the software development manager responsible for the new banking project. After the project was completed, she took charge in Aknet technology firm as Akbank new banking project coordinator in 1990. She worked in Körfezbank of Doğuş Group, which was active in corporate banking field, for 11 years as of 1991, as the Vice President responsible for IT. While working for Körfezbank, Ms. Karaca carried our B2B projects for leading corporate companies in our country. At the same time, she worked as a senior manager in BPR, IT Unification, Operation Unification, E-Banking and E-Business projects in Doğuş Group and its banks. While she was working as a CEO in Tradesoft between 2007 and 2014, Tradesoft took place in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Turkey program for five times, four times being successfully, due to successful projects and fast growth. Ms. Karaca is currently working as a CTO in TFI. She is the president of TÜBSİAD (Informatics Industry Association), a member of the Managing Board of TBV (Turkish Informatics Foundation) and a founding member and Advisory Board member in Wtech.

Alberto Heimler is professor of economics at the Italian School of Government in Rome. He is the Chairman of the Working Party on Competition and Regulation of the Competition Committee of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He was Counsellor of the Italian Minister for European Affairs, Director for research at the Italian Antirust Authority, a Member of the Steering Group of the International Competition Network (ICN) and Co-chair of a number of ICN working groups. He has been visiting professor at the department of Economics of Luiss University, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Bocconi University and in the School of Law of Haifa University and Tel Aviv University. His academic articles on antitrust enforcement, economic regulation and public procurement have appeared in the leading journals of the field. Professor Heimler is the co-coordinator of the procurement programs at the Italian School of Government and lectures frequently on antitrust, economic regulation, public procurement, public policy both in Italy and abroad.

Marshall Steinbaum is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. His research lies at the intersection of labor economics and competition law and policy, focusing on employer power in labor markets, particularly in the context of the gig economy. His research has been published in the Journal of Human Resources, Labor Economics, the University of Chicago Law Review, Antitrust Bulletin, and Law and Contemporary Problems, among other places. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Driss Guerraoui, was appointed by HM King Mohammed VI as a Chairman of the Moroccan Competition Council on November 17, 2018. He obtained in 1982 a state doctorate in economics from the University Lumières Lyon 2 (France). Born on December 12, 1952 in Kenitra, Mr. Guerraoui practiced as a professor of higher education at Mohammed V University in Rabat-Agdal, and as visitor professor at several foreign universities. Mr. Guerraoui was General Secretary of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) for 7 years since the Sovereign appointed him in 2011. Mr. Guerraoui, who was an adviser to the Prime Minister, from 1998 to 2011, is an active member in many associative and academic structures, and has many publications in the economic and social field. He was elected in 2017 member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal. He is married and has two children.

Ayşe Ergezen was born in Balıkesir, Gönen, in 1980. She finished her primary education, which she started in Tripoli due to her father’s post, in Gönen and her secondary education in İstanbul. In 2004, she graduated from the Boğaziçi University, Department of Business Administration - Management Information Systems, after which she studied International Trade at Jönköping University in Sweden. She received her master’s degree in the field of Global Politics at Bahçeşehir University and attended Diplomacy courses at the University of Oxford. She started her career as a manager at Finansbank. Afterwards she set up her own business. During this time she was elected as a member to the Municipal Council in Ümraniye, İstanbul. In 2009, she was appointed as Advisor to the Prime Minister. She ran for a seat at the Parliament from the province of Balıkesir in June 2015 general elections. Mrs. Ergezen has taken active roles in several non-governmental organizations. In chronological order, those are: Vice-Presidency of Üsküdar City Council, Chief Representative of Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) as well as Executive Board Memberships of KADEM and Turkey Youth and Education Service Foundation (TÜRGEV). Currently, she is still a Substitute Member of the Executive Board of KADEM, the Vice-President of the Turkish Chess Federation, and a member of the General Assembly of TÜRGEV. In addition, she is one of the founders of the July 15 Foundation and is currently a member of its Executive Board. In March 2016, she was appointed as the Deputy Undersecretary (Acting) of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies, where she continued to serve as the Deputy Minister of Family, Labor and Social Services, having been appointed to that post on July 25, 2018. During her term, she coordinated and helped realize several works aimed at Families, Children, Women, Persons with Disabilities, Elderly, Relatives of Martyrs and Veterans, which constitute the cornerstones of the society. She was appointed as a Board Member of the Competition Authority on December 26, 2019. Being fluent in English, Ayşe Ergezen is married with 4 children.

I am Shahin Nagiye. I was born in 1977 in Baku. I graduated from Azerbaijan State University of Economics and I am economist as a specialization. I have been working in State Service from Antimonopoly and Consumer Market Control since 1998 .