About Salih Neftçi
Salih Nur Neftçi was a leading expert in the fields of financial markets and financial engineering. He served many advisory roles in national and international financial institutions, and was an active researcher in the fields of finance and financial engineering. Neftçi was an avid and highly regarded educator in mathematical finance who was well known for a lucid and accessible approach towards the field. His mother, Nermin Neftçi was the vice chairman of Turkish parliament, and the first woman in Turkey to be so. Salih was born into a prominent wealthy Turkish family with ties to the oil business (neft is Arabic for oil).
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