Murat Sultanov is a Senior Operations Officer in the Financial Institutions Group Advisory at IFC. He serves as the Asset-Based and Supply Chain Finance Lead and is a member of the IFC Global Credit Infrastructure Team, currently based in Istanbul, Türkiye. Murat's work focuses on supporting and developing asset-based finance reforms and products in the MCT region, which includes Central Asia, Turkey, the Middle East, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
His experience includes facilitating the deployment of modern supply chain finance programs, drafting and supporting the enactment of various legislative acts related to leasing, secured transactions, and credit reporting in more than 30 jurisdictions across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
Murat represented IFC at the Advisory Board and the Drafting Committee at UNIDROIT to develop Model Law on Factoring and Model Law on Leasing. He also represented the World Bank Group in the UNCITRAL Working Group VI to develop UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions and related texts.
Murat holds an LL.M degree (Master of Laws) from the University of Southampton, UK.