Dr. Yener is Senior Lecturer of Finance and Corporate Governance, and Academic Program Director for MSF Program at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He joined Carey in March 2013. He is a financial economist specializing in investments, financial sector and corporate governance development, financial regulation and implementation.

Prior to joining JHU Carey Business School, he worked for the World Bank and later, for USAID (1992-2012) as project manager and financial sector advisor. His responsibilities included providing technical assistance throughout the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia, the Middle East and Africa regions, on private sector development, financial sector and capital markets development, corporate governance, and executive training and capacity development.

During his international economic development career with the World Bank and USAID, Dr. Yener helped design and launch training and research institutions for graduate and executive studies in business and finance, banking and financial professionals training and corporate governance in a number of countries which helped develop professional skills and capacity for scores of professionals, public and private sector officials, executive and directors.

He was professor of finance at Babson College (Boston) (1986-1995), and at Suffolk University (Boston) 1980-1986. He also previously held adjunct and visiting positions at Syracuse University, Harvard University, and at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), University of Utrecht School of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) joint MBA program with Sheffield University, and Maastricht School of Management (Netherlands), and the American University of Paris.

His teaching and research interests are in Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Investments, Financial Modeling and Valuation, Portfolio Management, and International Finance. He has publications on financial markets and corporate governance.

He holds degrees in accounting BSBA, MBA and PhD in management and finance, respectively from Gazi University, School of Economics and Management, Turkey, and Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.