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Cambridge
Judge Business School
Incoming MBA candidate, Cambridge MBA Distinction Award recipient and member of Magdalene College.
Profile · Finance, research & education
About Efe
I work at the intersection of finance, markets and economics across research, education and practice.
My writing is shaped by the same discipline I bring to professional work: start with evidence, make the assumptions visible and keep conviction separate from certainty.
Istanbul · CambridgeCambridge MBA ’27
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Boğaziçi
First in faculty and department
B.A. in International Trade with an Economics minor, 3.9/4.0 GPA and TÜBİTAK undergraduate scholarship.
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International work
Research across three continents
Five years at Valens Research, working with institutional, corporate and education audiences in the U.S., Asia and EMEA.
Education
Academic foundation
Formal training in economics, international trade and finance, followed by an MBA at Cambridge.
University of Cambridge
Judge Business School · Cambridge, UK
Cambridge MBA Distinction Award recipient and member of Magdalene College.
Boğaziçi University
Istanbul, Türkiye
Graduated first in both faculty and department with a 3.9/4.0 GPA. TÜBİTAK undergraduate scholar and Erasmus grant recipient at Utrecht University.
Selected experience
Research, advisory and teaching
A concise selection of work that informs how I analyse companies, markets and decisions.
Valens Research
Cambridge, MA · Remote
Worked with institutional and executive audiences across the U.S., Asia and EMEA. Built a CFO Excellence Center with a Big Four firm’s largest U.S. office, supporting eight Fortune 500 clients, and helped scale CFA and university programmes reaching 6,000+ participants.
Boğaziçi University
Istanbul, Türkiye
Mentored more than 250 students across four economics courses, led problem sessions and supported applied research on trade and exchange rates, earning a 4.9/5 evaluation average.
Petrol Ofisi
Istanbul, Türkiye
Built DCF and sensitivity analyses for commercial offers and improved contract and SAP-based pricing workflows at one of Türkiye’s leading energy distributors.
Credentials & affiliations
Selected signals
CFA Society Boston
Member · since 2023
Harvard Business School
CORe · High Honors · 2025
McKinsey & Company
Forward alumnus · 2023
Languages
Turkish · English (IELTS 8) · German (B1)
Beyond the desk
Curiosity is not confined to markets.
I co-captained the Boğaziçi Cycling Team and volunteered with the university’s dog shelter. Away from work, I make time for cycling, motorcycling, nature, travel and D&D.
Mountains · Movement · Perspective