Ms. Esra Turk

Esra Turk joined Deutsche Bank London in June 2021 and is currently Head of CEEMEA and LATAM Institutional Client Group (ICG), Co-Head of Global Emerging Market Sales and Chair of Middle East & Africa. She is a member of ICG Extended ExCo and Global Emerging Markets (GEM) ExCo. Esra also represents Deutsche Bank on the International Swap Dealers Association (ISDA) Board.

Previously, Esra worked for 12 years at Barclays and was Head of Emerging Markets Sales and Origination in EMEA and Americas and Chairman of Middle East and North Africa. She was also a member of the Client ExCo in Markets, Diversity Champion for Markets, WIN Gender Network Executive Sponsor in the UK and member of Barclays Bank Development Council. Esra also held other senior roles across Structuring, Financial Resource Management, Risk Solutions Group as well as Barclays Non-Core (BNC) where she led the client management team which developed client-centric solutions that accelerated BNC’s derivative and asset divestments.

Esra started her banking career at Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank) in Leveraged Buyouts and Corporate Finance, and went on to work in Derivatives Marketing for Eastern Europe, Turkey and Portugal. Esra has also worked in a Structuring role within Emerging Markets Proprietary Trading at Credit Suisse and was an Executive Director and Co-Head of CEEMEA Debt Capital Markets Origination and Liability Management at UBS before becoming Turkey Country Head at Dresdner Kleinwort.

Esra holds a Master in Business Administration in Finance from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts from Bogazici University, Istanbul. She was a Trustee and Board Member of Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership between 2016 and 2021.