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Hakan Gunaydin
Sr Director, Research
Hakan Gunaydin is a Gartner expert working with Chief Financial Officers and other finance executives focused on leading and transforming the function.
His current research focuses on how finance leaders can build frontier finance teams in the age of AI.
He has recently published papers on how frontier finance teams focus on overhauling enterprise making and creating machine-driven operations, how the finance workforce needs to evolve to support AI-driven and augmented activities, and the type of organizational structure changes finance needs to enabled these changes.
Mr. Gunaydin previously worked as part of a research teams that provided a portfolio of tools, benchmarks and case studies tailored to CIOs and Infrastructure and Operations leaders.
Previous experience
Prior to this, Mr. Gunaydin was an academic researcher who studied the political economy of economic crisis and the role and effect of international financial institutions.
Professional background
Consultant, TUSIAD-Sabanci University Competitiveness Forum, 2 years
University of Konstanz, Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2 years
Education
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
- M.A., Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
- M.A., Political Science, Sabanci University
- B.A., Social and Political Sciences, Sabanci University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Chief Financial Officers
Future of Finance/Finance 2030
Digital Finance Talent
Product Management and Agile Methodologies