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TCI Director Arthur Bayhan

Since 2006, Arthur Bayhan is Director on the Board of Directors of TCI-The Competitiveness Institute. He is Chief Executive Officer of The Competitiveness Support Fund in Pakistan.

Arthur Bayhan is TCI Director with a special emphasis on Asia Pacific.

He is working in Pakistan as the Chief Executive Officer of The Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF). Arthur Bayhan was formerly Senior International Economist and Director for Regional Programmes at the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED). He is directing the programmes of IKED on the countries in transition and on the emerging market economies.

Mr. Bayhan was Head of the Enterprise Development Unit at the OECD and General Manager of the OECD Centre for Private Sector Development between October 1992 and September 2001. The Unit was responsible for OECD work related to entrepreneurship and enterprise development and investment promotion in non-member countries.

During his tenure, Mr. Bayhan played a key role in the creation of a range of regional periodic OECD Foras for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (FEED) in South East Europe, Russia, the Baltic's and South America. Mr. Bayhan established sustainable networks of foreign investment agencies and regional roundtables for investment promotion in transition and emerging market economies and assisted the establishment of a number of the OECD Centres in several regions, which includes Multilateral Tax Training Centres in Copenhagen, Denmark, Vienna, Austria, and Ankara, Turkey. Mr. Bayhan established the first and the unique OECD Centre for Private Sector Development in Istanbul, Turkey.

Prior to his work at OECD, Mr. Bayhan spent three years at the European Commission in Brussels managing support programmes directed towards the improvement of business environment and market access for SMEs in the EU member countries.