Gokhan KONT

Gokhan is the Regional Industry Manager for Investments with Financial Institutions Group at IFC responsible for North Africa and Horn of Africa (including Ethiopia, Zambia and Malawi). Prior to that, he worked as the Regional Manager responsible for IFC’s new business and investment portfolio of $6 billion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.

He started his career at Fidelity Investments in Boston working in equity and fixed income funds and later joined Citigroup’s FIG M&A team covering North America. After a few years with Garanti Bank treasury department in Istanbul, he joined IFC in 2005.

Gokhan holds a BSc. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and master’s and post graduate degree from the University of Texas and Northeastern University.