Serdar Çelik

Serdar Çelik is Head of the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). His main responsibilities include corporate governance, capital markets, financial education, financial consumer protection, insurance, pensions and state-owned enterprises. He leads the secretariats to the OECD’s Corporate Governance Committee and the Committee on Financial Markets, which are the custodian of global standards in business and finance. These standards include the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, G20/OECD High-Level Principles on Financial Consumer Protection, OECD Core Principles of Private Pension Regulation and OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises. The Committees also engage extensively with numerous non-OECD countries through regional programmes in Asia, Latin America and MENA, as well as country technical assistance projects. The Division produces the OECD’s Corporate Governance Factbook, Global Debt Report, Pensions Outlook, Global Corporate Sustainability Report, PISA on Financial Literacy and Compendium on Ownership and Governance of State-Owned Enterprises. Mr. Çelik has authored numerous publications on corporate governance, institutional investors and capital markets. He received the Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award from the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School in 2016.