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M. Sefa Pamuksuz, Managing Partner 3 October 2022

Sefa has hands on experience and interest in regulation, financing, budgeting, monitoring and reporting of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), corporate governance and public financial management.

He has 25 years of experience in Turkish Treasury in various capacities; Director General of State Owned Enterprises Department and recently as the Coordinator of G20 Infrastructure and Investment Working Group as well as the Chair of the G20/OECD Task Force on Institutional Investors and Long-Term Investment (LTI). Sefa also worked as the Alternate Executive Director of Turkey in the World Bank Group. He was an active member of the OECD Working Party on State Ownership and Privatization Practices between 1998 and 2010.

He executed SOE Budget of Turkey (4% of Turkey’s primary expenditures) including current and investment transfers to SOEs, agricultural support institutions, social security institutions and public banks. During his career in Treasury, he participated in sectoral reform efforts in Turkey such as public financial institutions, energy, agriculture, health, social security sectors, and labor markets. He worked in various public finance management projects and is also a PFM expert for IMF FAD. He provided technical assistance to governments of Cyprus, Mozambique, Lao PDR, Jamaica and Jordan.

He is a CPA and a graduate of Middle East Technical University with a B.S. in Management and Boston College with a MSF degree. Sefa volunteers as a mentor to senior students of Middle East Technical University. He is fluent in Turkish and English. He is currently working as a consultant on PFM, LTI, corporate governance and SOEs.