PROF. DR. ORHAN GÜVENEN
Director, ”Institute of World Systems, Economies and Strategic Research” (DSEE)
Chairman, Accounting Information Systems Department
Bilkent University
FEASS Z-03, 06800 Bilkent, Ankara,Turkey
Telephone: (90-312) 290 24 96, (90-312) 290 16 60 Fax:(90-312) 266 4383
e-mail:
www.dsee.bilkent.edu.tr
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1988 - presentProfessor of Strategic Decision Systems, Econometrics and International Economics. Founder and Director of the Institute of World Systems, Economies and Strategic Research (founded in 1988), and since August 2000, Chairman of the Accounting Information Systems Department, SAL, Member of the “Executive Board of UNAM-National Nantechnology Research Center, and Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Strategy, Economy and Industry” (2008), Bilkent University, Ankara
1998 - presentInvited Professor, University of Paris – Panthéon.
2005 - presentUnited Nations, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Montreal, Canada, Governing Board Member and Since November 2007, Vice-chairman of the Governing Board
2008- presentPresident, “Applied Econometrics Association”
2002 - 2005President of the Governing Board, Council of Europe Development Bank
2001 - 2005 Representative of Turkey, UNESCO Executive Board
1997 – 2001Member of the Council of Higher Education of the Republic of Turkey
1997 - 2000Ambassador, Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister
1997 - 1999Undersecretary, State Planning Organization, Prime Ministry, Republic of Turkey
June - July 1996Visiting Professor, Systems Engineering Department, Case Western Reserve University, USA
1996 - 1997Vice chairman, OECD Council Executive Committee
1995 - 1997Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the OECD, Vice Chairman of the OECD Council Executive Committee.
1988 - 1994President, State Institute of Statistics, Prime Ministry, Republic of Turkey
1979 - 1988Administrator, directorate for Computers and Communications, OECD
1979 - 1988Research director and Professor of Econometrics, University of Paris, Chargé de Conferences EPHE (University of Paris-Sorbonne) 1976, and “Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales” (Paris) 1977-1984, Supervisor of over 100 Master Degree Theses and 20 Ph.D. Theses in Applied Econometrics, Econometric Modeling and International economics, University of Paris.
1974 - 1978Administrator and Deputy Head of Agricultural Statistics Section, OECD
1973Consultant in Statistics, OECD
1969 - 1973Assistant Professor of Econometrics, Atatürk University, Erzurum
1964 - 1966Military Service as a Signals Officer
1963 - 1972Operations Management Consultant at Örnek Institution Co.
1961Internship at the Headquarters of Crédit Lyonnais in Paris
1960Internship at the Headquarters of Banco di Roma in Milan
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
1999 - presentMember of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
1993 - presentMember of "The Club of Rome", Member of the Executive Committee (1995-2008)
1994 - presentMember, International Statistical Institute Council (1994-1999), selected by the “Nominations Committee” one of the two candidates for Presidency Elect in 2006 for 2009, First Turkish Candidate nominated since 1852, and Member since 1990
1994 - presentMember, Turkish Mathematical Society
1992 - presentMember, Scientific Council of the Black Sea University, Bucharest
1992 - presentMember of the High Council, Informatics Association of Turkey (1992-1995), President of the Working Group of International Relations (1999-2002), Member since 1992.
1992 - 1994Member, Bureau of the United Nations Conference of European Statisticians, Geneva
1990 – present Founder of the Turkish Statistical Society (1990) and President (1990 - 1994)
1993 - 1994Vice chairman of the Group of Experts on OECD Information and Communications Technology
1988 - 1992Member, Management Board of the Directorate General of Posts, Telegraphs and
Telephone Administration of Turkey
1987 - 1988Chairman, OECD Assembly of Representatives, Staff Association
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Econometrics, University of Paris Sorbonne
- M.Sc., Econometrics, University of Paris Sorbonne
- B.Sc., Economics, University of Istanbul
- Lycée Saint Joseph, Istanbul, Baccalauréat in Mathematics
PUBLICATIONS
Several articles and books published by kluwer (Boston) martinus Nijhoff (Dordrecht), Chapman and Hall (London), Journal of the Turkish Statistical Association, BSEF (Bucharest), Statistica (Sofia), Queen’s University (Ontario), International Institute of Systems Analysis and Cybernetics (Orlando), World Scientific (New Jersey), Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals (Barcelona), TCV, MEB, TMMOB, MPM, DIE, DPT, TBD, SAV, UNDP, ILO (Ankara), Istanbul Technical University, Bogazici University (Istanbul), Forum Europe (Brussels), Economica (Paris), etc. on international commodity and energy market modeling, macroeconometric modeling, statistics, systems analysis, international economics, science methodology and papers presented in particular at the congresses of the Applied Econometrics Association, the Econometric Society, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the International Statistical Institute.
HONOURS AND AWARDS
"Informatics Association of Turkey and Turkish Information Technology Services Association Life-Time Service Award”, 2004
International Statistical Institute "The Adolphe Quetelet Medal", 1996
"Commendatore nell’Ordine al Merito della Republica Italiana Medal", 1994
"Honorary Member of the Statisticians Association", 1993
Selected "Best Public Sector Manager of the Year", 1989, 1992, 1993 and 1994
"Honorary Member of the Atatürk University Foundation", 1979
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English, French, and Italian
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Turkish citizen, born in August 5, 1939, Erzurum, married, two children
November 23, 2011