Taha Meli Arvas completed his undergraduate education in 2003 at Syracuse University in New York State, USA, double majoring in Bioengineering and Finance. Later, he began his master’s degree in political science
at the CUNY Graduate Center. He completed his MBA at Özyeğin University in 2013 and a master’s degree in Financial Engineering in 2014. He is continuing his doctoral studies in finance at Boğaziçi University.
Arvas began his professional career in New York within the management consulting firm he founded, providing consultancy to companies on developing business and investment strategies. While active in the consultancy sector, he also served as a commentator for many national and international media outlets in the field of finance and worked as a financial columnist between 2013 and 2020.
Serving as the Deputy Chairman of the Capital Markets Board (SPK) between 2020 and 2021, Arvas carried out special studies in the areas of developing capital markets, facilitating companies’ access to capital, and combating the manipulation of securities during this process. Additionally, Arvas gave lectures as a faculty member at Özyeğin University’s finance department in 2020, and at Boğaziçi University between 2021 and 2024. Having served as an Advisor to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources in 2023, Taha Meli Arvas was appointed as the General Manager of EPİAŞ on February 9, 2024.