Building a World: A Biography of Husnu Ozyegin

The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Building a World: A Biography of Hüsnü Özyeğin, by Rıdvan Akar, translated by Sarah Jilani, published by Özyeğin University Press, Istanbul, 2018, first printing, English edition. Hüsnü Özyeğin is one of modern Turkey's most prominent bankers and philanthropists. A graduate of Robert College in Istanbul, he studied civil engineering at Oregon State University and earned an MBA at Harvard Business School, then rose through Turkish banking to found Finansbank in 1987, building it into one of the country's leading private banks before selling a controlling stake to the National Bank of Greece in 2006. Through the Fiba group and the Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation he turned much of his fortune toward education and rural development, founding Özyeğin University in Istanbul in 2007. Journalist Rıdvan Akar traces his life against the background of Turkey's economic transformation from the 1960s through the liberalization of the 1980s and the growth of its financial sector. A scarce English-language source on Turkish business history and one of its leading figures, rarely found outside Turkey.…