Esra Turk

Biography

Esra Turk is Global Head of Sustainable Finance and ESG Solutions at the Investment Bank. She is also Chair of the Investment Bank for Middle East & Africa. Previously, Esra ran CEEMEA FIC Coverage (2021–2025) and LATAM FIC Coverage (2022–2024) and was the Senior Executive Officer for Deutsche Bank’s ADGM branch. Esra represents Deutsche Bank on the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Board and is a member of ISDA’s Management Committee. Before joining DB, Esra worked for 12 years at Barclays and was Head of Emerging Markets Sales and Origination in EMEA and Americas and Chairman of Middle East and North Africa. She was also a member of the Markets Client Exco, Diversity Champion for Markets, WIN Gender Network Executive Sponsor in the UK and member of Barclays Bank Development Council. Esra also held other senior roles across Structuring, Financial Resource Management, Risk Solutions Group as well as Barclays Non-Core (BNC) where she led the client management team which developed client-centric solutions that accelerated BNC’s derivative and asset divestments. Esra started her banking career at Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank) in Leveraged Buyouts and Corporate Finance and went on to work in Derivatives Marketing for Eastern Europe, Turkey and Portugal. Esra has also worked in EM Structuring within Emerging Markets Proprietary Trading at Credit Suisse and was an Executive Director and Co-Head of CEEMEA Debt Capital Markets Origination and Liability Management at UBS before becoming Turkey Country Head at Dresdner Kleinwort. Esra holds an MBA in Finance from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA in Business Administration from Bogazici University, Istanbul. She was a Trustee and Board Member of Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership (2016–2021).