Yalman Onaran

Onaran was born in Istanbul and moved to the United States in 1987 to attend the College of College of Wooster{{cite web|last=Karz|first=Gary|title=The Global Financial Crisis according to Yalman Onaran|url=http://investorhome.com/gfc/yo.htm|work=Global Financial Crisis Survey|publisher=InvestorHome|access-date=29 January 2014}} from which he graduated in 1991.{{cite web |title=Wooster Magazine |url=http://www.wooster.edu/about/alumni/journalism/onaran/|publisher=The College of Wooster|access-date=28 January 2014}} Onaran earned graduate degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Onaran taught in schools before he became a full-time correspondent for the Associated Press, and moved back to Ankara, Turkey in 1995 to cover wars and politics. Onaran found himself covering the war zones first, then switched to financial journalism.{{cite web|last=Bell|first=Art|title=Art Bell: Yalman Onaran|url=http://artbell.com/yalman-onaran/}} opening the company's Istanbul bureau.{{cite web|title=Zombie Banks: A Political Salon with Yalman Onaran|url=http://www.worldpolicy.org/events/zombie-banks-political-salon-yalman-onaran|publisher=World Policy Institute|access-date=28 January 2014}} Onaran has worked for Bloomberg News since 1998 in various capacities including as Istanbul bureau chief and magazine writer. Onaran moved back to New York City in 2006, where he covered Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns during the 2007–2008 financial crisis.

In 2013, his book about zombie banks was published, Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations are Crippling the Global Economy.

• Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations are Crippling the Global Economy (New York, Wiley, 2011).{{cite web|title=Zombie Banks|url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118094522.html|publisher=Wiley}}
• "U.S. Bank Regulators Go Bigger Than Basel, Seek Tougher Capital Rules", Businessweek (July 11, 2013)Onaran, Talman. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130714021201/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/u-dot-s-dot-bank-regulators-go-bigger-than-basel-seek-tougher-capital-rules "U.S. Bank Regulators Go Bigger Than Basel, Seek Tougher Capital Rules"], Businessweek (July 11, 2013)
• "U.S. Bank Balance Sheets May Hide Risk" Businessweek (February 21, 2013)Onaran, Yalman. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130223073131/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-21/u-dot-s-dot-bank-balance-sheets-may-hide-risk "U.S. Bank Balance Sheets May Hide Risk"] Businessweek (February 21, 2013)

Onaran's work has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and numerous other publications around the world.

Onaran is married with a son, and is an avid diver and ice skater. He speaks and reads English, Turkish, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish.{{cite web|title=LinkedIn: Yalman Onaran|last=Onaran|first=Yalman|url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/yalman-onaran/3/965/928|publisher=LinkedIn / Yalman Onaran|access-date=28 January 2014}}

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