• Yavuz Canevi, Chairman of the Board, Forum İstanbul
  

• Oğuz Satıcı, President, Turkish Exporters Assembly
  

10:15 – 10:30    COFFEE BREAK            

10:30 – 12:30    SESSION ITHE IMPACT OF THE CENTRAL BANK POLICIES ON FINANCIAL MARKETS AND EXPECTATIONS

a)    What are the impacts of the Central Bank policies on financial markets?
b)    What are the main vulnerabilities in the financial markets? Can monetary policy help to reduce them?
c)    Is inflation targeting able to reduce inflation less than 2 percent over the medium term in emerging market economies?

Moderator:             

• Gazi Erçel, Former Governor, Central Bank of Turkey

Speakers:    

• Arnab Das, Managing Director, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein,

• Prof. Dr. Deniz Gökçe, Boğaziçi University

• Aristobulo de Juan, Former Governor of the Central Bank of Spain

• Peter Praet, Executive Director, National Bank of Belgium
  

12:30 – 14:30    LUNCH
            

Guest Speaker:    

• Prof. Dr. Dani RODRİK, Harvard University

14:30 – 16:00    SESSION II
THE FUTURE OF TURKISH BANKING

a)    What are the contributions of the foreign banks to the banking sector? Their impacts on the economy…
b)    The changes on the bank balance sheets – Risk measuring and management – Basel II
c)    Which reforms should be done for the banking sector?
d)    Responsibility, productivity and use of capital in the banking sector
e)    Floating exchange rate regime and the financial system


Moderator:            

• Zekeriya Yıldırım, Chairman, FİDYAK

Speakers:            

• Hakan Ateş, General Manager, Denizbank

• Yiğit Bulut, CNN Türk

• Varol Civil, General Manager, Türk Ekonomi Bankası

• Yvan De Cock, CEO, Fortis Turkey

• Ergun Özen, General Manager, Garanti Bankası

16:00 – 16:15    COFFEE BREAK        

16:15 – 18:00    SESSION III
THE NON-FINANCIAL SECTOR, BANKING AND CAPITAL MARKETS AFTER YEAR 2001
a)    How can the negative effects of the fluctuations in the financial markets on the non-financial sector minimized?
b)    Banks, Capital Markets and the emerging sectors of the future in Turkey
c)    The future of the export-based growth in Turkey
d)    Should the design of the economic policy be revised?
e)    What additional structural reforms are needed to reduce the vulnerability of the Turkish economy to future external shocks?

Moderator:            

• Ercan Kumcu, Columnist, Hürriyet Gazetesi

Speakers:            

• Ömer Aras, Board Member, Finansbank
  

• Tayfun Bayazıt,Chairman, Fortis Turkey

• Mahfi Eğilmez, Former Undersecretary of Treasury

• Prof. Dr. Vefa Tarhan, Loyola University Chicago