Murat Köprülü
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| Born |
Murat Nafiz Köprülü Ankara, Turkey |
| Residence | New York City |
| Nationality | American, Turkish |
| Alma mater |
Columbia University, M.Phil London School of Economics, M.Sc. University of Maryland, B.S. |
| Occupation | Managing Partner, ME Markets LLC, Chairman of The American Immigrant Society |
| Website | AmericanImmigrantSociety.org |
Murat Köprülü is a Turkish American investment professional and philanthropist. He is currently advisor on Emerging Markets to four hedge fund groups based in New York. He is also the Chairman of the American Turkish Society, founded in 1949, the oldest U.S.-based not-for-profit organization that seeks to enhance economic, diplomatic, cultural, and educational ties between the United States and Turkey.
Murat Köprülü's long tenure in investing in emerging markets since 1987 establishes him as a global expert in emerging markets; he has survived the emerging markets upheavals of 1991 recession, the 1994 Mexican peso crisis, the 1997 East Asia Crisis, the 1998 Russian financial crisis, the early 2000s recession, and the Global financial crisis of 2008. Köprülü began his career at the World Bank, where he started at the age of 19 as a part-time consultant in computer modeling for the Research Department, while he was going to college. He then worked from 1980 through 1983 at the Turkey Desk and the Egypt Desk. From 1983 to 1986, Köprülü was Managing Director of IntraLink, Ltd., an international trade finance advisory firm, which provided financing sources for international trade transactions in a diverse list of emerging countries such as Egypt, Ivory Coast, Greece, Turkey, and the Philippines.
Köprülü was formerly CEO of Multilateral Funding International (MFI), a New York based emerging markets investment and financial advisory firm, which he founded in 1988, specializing in the regions comprising Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey, Middle East, and Central Asia. He was also the Managing Partner of MFI's brokerage affiliate, MFI Securities, L.P., trading in the capital markets of the same regions. In 2004, MFI established the Turkey Opportunity Fund to invest in Turkish equities. Köprülü is currently advisor on Emerging Markets to four hedge fund groups based in New York.
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