Mustafa Kemal YILMAZ graduated from Lycée de Galatasaray in 1985. He earned his BA degree from Marmara University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Business Administration Department in 1990. He completed the Finance-Accounting Master program at the same faculty in 1993. He started his career in 1991 as specialist with the Undersecretariat of Treasury, Directorate General of Banking and Exchange, where he worked until 1994, when he joined Borsa İstanbul. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Institute for Banking and Insurance at Marmara University in 1998, and became Associate Professor of finance-accounting in May 2004. At Borsa İstanbul, he worked as specialist for the Derivatives Market in 1994-2005, and Risk Management Department in 2006-2007. He was Chief of Staff during 2007-2011. Since 2012, Mr. YILMAZ has been Executive Vice Chairman in Borsa İstanbul.  Mr. YILMAZ served as consultant for Tehran Metal Exchange and Iran Agricultural Commodity Exchange as a nominee of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in November-December 2006. He has been an academic consultant with the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, Turkish Capital Market Sector Assembly since 2007.