Şebnem Alp is Country Head for Turkey, Eastern Europe and Central Asia at UK Export Finance (UKEF). In this role, Şebnem promotes and supports the export growth of UK companies while managing and building relationships and partnerships with a range of project contractors, governments, financial institutions and other stakeholders in the region.

Prior to this position, Sebnem worked at Banco Sabadell Turkey Rep. Office as Deputy Representative and at Banco Sabadell SA in Spain. Her responsibilities included coordinating country strategy, transaction management and market engagement with stakeholders on various products such as export and trade finance, supply chain finance, syndication and deal origination.

Prior to this, she worked for Halk Bank, managing relationships with financial institutions in key regions such as the Americas and Benelux to facilitate all trade finance and structured finance products.