Nilgün Gökgür is an independent consultant for the World Bank and the IMF working on state-owned enterprise governance reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia over more than thirty years. She is widely recognized for her expertise in assessing financial, operational, fiscal (and fiscal risk) performance for state-owned enterprises. She has reviewed for several countries infrastructure enterprise reforms with private participation and assessed its impact on key stakeholders: consumers, workers and employees, enterprises, owners and operators, the government and the environment.
Previously she worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), Harvard Business School, and Boston Institute for Developing Economies (BIDE). She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and a Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Basel, Switzerland. A dual citizen of Turkey and the United States, she is the mother of two daughters and resides with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts.