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category were “Little Hands Are Coding” by QNB Finansbank, “Women Entrepreneurs Academy” by Ünlü Securities, and the project Garanti Invest co-conducts with Tohum Autism Foundation. World Investor Week Events Organized by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), the 4 th World Investor Week was celebrated with online events held between 16-21 November 2020 co-hosted by the Capital Markets Board of Turkey (CMB) and Borsa İstanbul. The World Investor Week was inaugurated with the Gong Ceremony on 16 November 2020 hosted by Borsa İstanbul. The inauguration speeches of the event were delivered by the President of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Finance Office Prof. Dr. Göksel Aşan, Capital Markets Board of Turkey Chairperson Ali Fuat Taşkesenlioğlu, Borsa İstanbul Chairperson Prof. Dr. Erişah Arıcan, Borsa İstanbul CEO and Board Member at the time M. Hakan Atilla, and Tevfik Eraslan, the TCMA Chairperson. Real sector, investors and students showed great interest in the sessions held on 27 different topics, which featured 113 experts, market representatives and academics as speakers throughout the week. The World Investor Week website was visited by 30 thousand people between 16-21 November 2020. The website was also viewed 150 thousand times. The online sessions were streamed live on the www.dunyayatirimcihaftasi.org.tr website and TCMA YouTube channel reached a viewing number of 18,000 during the course of those 6 days. A number of topics were discussed in the sessions, ranging from mergers, acquisitions and finding strategic partners to securities investment, from attracting sustainability funds to Turkey to gold investments. The sessions also dealt with 27 informative subjects addressing individual investors, students and real sector companies on a broad spectrum extending from taxation of capital market instruments to bills and bonds investments; from the golden rule of budgeting to corporate governance in family companies and internship in the capital market. The 4 th World Investor Week held online was followed by investors from not only İstanbul but from all the regions in Turkey. The interest in the sessions was high especially from the UK, Germany, Austria, Holland, Azerbaijan and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Besides individual investors and university students, attendants from 14 different sectors and 8 different profession groups showed interest in the event. It was followed by the members of chambers of industry and commerce, exporter associations and organized industrial sites. Employees of ministries, municipalities, associations MEETINGS AND EVENTS World Investor Week Events 48 TCMA 2020 ANNUAL REPORT