Murat YAPICI, MSc, MBA
Managing Director

Murat YAPICI founded MY Advisor in 2022 after accumulating 36 years of experience in the Ministry of Trade.

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He served as Director General for EU Relations at the Ministry for many years. He was was the Chief Negotiator for the Customs Union and numerous Free Trade Agreement negotiations. He also assumed charge as Director General of Imports (acting) managing all Import Regime and Trade Policy Measures and Director General for Agreements overseeing all international economic relations including WTO.

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He served as Chief Commercial Counsellor at the Turkish Embassy in Tokyo (2 times) and London.

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He started his career in 1986 as Foreign Trade Expert at Undersecretariat of Treasury and Foreign Trade then. He worked as Expert (investigator) at the Dumping and Subsidy Investigations Department since its establishment. He was promoted to positions of Chief of Section, Head of Department there and then Deputy Director General of Imports responsible for Trade Defence Instruments Measures including anti-dumping, subsidy and safeguards.

 

He has experience in foreign trade and industrial policies; the import regime; anti-dumping and subsidy investigations; safeguard and surveillance measures; incentive schemes; trade and investment promotion; as well as bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade relations and negotiations.

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He contributed significantly to the drafting the Legislation on the Prevention of Unfair Competition in Imports and the establishment of investigation system including margin calculation, injury evaluation and on-site verification. He has carried out more than 100 investigations. He chaired both the Board of Evaluation of Unfair Competition in Imports and the Safeguard Board. He has defended Turkish exporters in the investigations opened against Türkiye. He was the head of the Turkish delegation as a plaintiff in the panel initiated at the WTO. He represented Türkiye in the WTO Anti-Dumping Committee and Rules Negotiation Group.

 

 

He delivered presentations at the European Parliament and various international platforms on Türkiye–EU Customs Union. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Türkiye–EU economic relations at Ankara University and delivered lectures on international trade, globalization, and the European Union at the European Union Research Center. He also lectured extensively on Trade Policy Instruments in diverse professional and academic settings, including as a guest speaker of the WTO Secretariat.

 

He has written his master thesis regarding “WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement”. His dissertation as Foreign Trade Expert at the Ministry was on “Safeguard Measures” which was the first study in Türkiye then.

 

​He has a MBA degree from Ankara University Political Science Faculty. He graduated from METU Petroleum Eng. and completed his master degree at the same university. He did postgraduate studies in the field of international economic relations at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

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He is fluent in Japanese and English.