Dr. Riza Kadilar is the president of European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He has a PhD in Economics. After a BSc degree at METU in Industrial Engineering, he has obtained his MSc degree at Stanford University, and completed his MBA at HEC, Paris and an executive management course at INSEAD. His professional career includes senior level bank management experience in France, UK, Netherlands and Turkey. During his 25 years of banking career he delivered numerous motivational speeches in more than 30 countries, and was a visiting professor at leading universities. He is also chairman of China Institute Turkey, scientific committee member at Institut du Bosphore (Paris), and board member at Hisar Education Foundation (Istanbul), and the author of five published books on various topics including China, carbon markets, mentoring, coaching and facilitation.