Selim Soydemir graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences in 1983, and completed his master's degree in International Trade and Financial Management at the University of Reading, England. He received his doctorate degree in economics with his thesis on Financial Fund Flows in Turkey (1982-1993) at Gazi University in 1997.
Having received special education on capital markets at Wharton School in 1985, Soydemir joined the Executive Education program at Carnegie Mellon University in 1997.
He started his career as an assistant researcher at the Capital Markets Board in 1983. He has served as a consultant.
Soydemir has been giving lectures on Financial Institutions, International Financial Management and Public Finance at Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences since 2006, and also lectures on Micro and Macro Economy at Başkent University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Engineering Faculty.