Seda Güler Mert is the Chief economist for Türkiye at Garanti – BBVA Research. She leads a team of economists specializing in macroeconomic analysis of the Turkish economy and the Turkish financial system, political and geopolitical developments, and quantitative modelling. The team conducts a new line of research on Big Data and Applied Economic Analysis in order to improve macroeconomic forecasting and real time analysis of the economy in high definition.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics with a minor in Mathematics from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, and a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She has completed executive and professional programs in Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting, Global Imbalances, Financial Programming and Policies, and Empirical Applications in Banking and Macro-Finance, delivered by institutions including the IIF, LSE, IMF, and BSE. She has been a member of the BBVA Research Modelling Community since 2017 and has participated in Garanti BBVA’s leadership development programs since 2021.