Güven Sak is the Director of the Area Studies Programme at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey. He holds a PhD degree in Economics from the Middle East Technical University and an M.A. degree from the University of East Anglia. He worked as a senior researcher at the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, and as a faculty member at the Department of Public Finance, the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University and as an external founding member of the Monetary Policy Council of the Central Bank of Turkey.