Murat Sultanov

Senior Operations Officer, Financial Institutions Group Advisory, IFC

^{Murat is a member of the IFC Global Credit Infrastructure Team where he works as a Secured Transactions and Asset Based Lending specialist currently based in Istanbul, Turkey. Murat works to support reforms of secured transactions and collateral registries in ECA, MENA and Asia regions. He previously worked as a programme manager for the IFC Advisory Services in MENA and ECA where he supervised a number of programs including secured transactions and collateral registries, credit reporting and leasing. He has extensive experience in managing and implementing regulatory reforms and capacity building programs globally. His experience includes drafting and supporting the enactment of various legislative acts related to leasing, secured transactions and credit reporting in more than 30 jurisdictions in the former Soviet Union, Middle East & North Africa, South East Asia and Africa. Murat represented IFC at the Advisory Board and the Drafting Committee at UNIDROIT to develop Model Law on Leasing and presently is an IFC delegate in the UNIDROIT Working Group to develop Model Law on Factoring. He also represented the World Bank Group in the UNCITRAL Working Group VI to develop UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions and related texts. Murat holds an LL.M degree (Master of Laws) from the University of Southampton, UK.}