Mustafa Besim
Mustafa Besim is a professor of economics at Eastern Mediterranean University. His fields of specialisation are public finance, corporate finance, investment appraisal and economic development. Besim holds a PhD degree from the University of Birmingham. Professor Besim served as a member of the Turkish Cypriot economy working group for the Cyprus Talks in 2003-4, 2008-2010 and 2016-2017. Professor Besim also worked as a member of the Board of Directors of the TRNC Central Bank between 2014-2018 and as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the TRNC Development Bank between 2018-2019. He has publications from the area of finance, shadow economy, taxation, productivity, labour market, global financial crisis to peace economics. He has presented papers about shadow economy, corporate finance, fiscal federalism, taxation and competitiveness. Professor Besim is the Dean of Faculty of Business and Economics at Eastern Mediterranean University since 2021.