Murat Sultanov is a Senior Operations Officer in the Financial Institutions Group Advisory at IFC, where he serves as the Asset-Based and Supply Chain Finance Lead. Based in Istanbul, Türkiye, he is a member of the IFC Global Credit Infrastructure Team, supporting asset-based finance reforms and the development of ABF products across the MCT region, including Central Asia, Turkey, the Middle East, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Murat has extensive experience facilitating the deployment of modern supply chain finance programmes and supporting legislative reforms related to leasing, secured transactions, and credit reporting. His work spans more than 30 jurisdictions across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
He represented IFC on the Advisory Board and Drafting Committee at UNIDROIT for the development of the Model Law on Factoring and the Model Law on Leasing, and represented the World Bank Group in UNCITRAL Working Group VI during the development of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions and related texts.
Murat holds an LL.M. from the University of Southampton, UK.