Yaren joined the WRI Türkiye Sustainable Cities team as an Executive Assistant in July 2022. Prior to joining WRI, she worked as an Editor and Project Assistant at United Cities and Local Governments Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA) and as an English translator at Huawei Turkey....
Cemil Oğuz joined WRI Türkiye Sustainable Cities as an urban planner in August 2021.
In 2012, he started his professional career as a project associate in transportation master planning, and became a project manager. Between 2014 and 2018 he worked as a real estate appraiser. During this...
Murat Ölmez is an Urban Planner at WRI Türkiye Sustainable Cities.
Prior to joining WRI, he worked as an urban planner at UCTEA Chamber of Urban Planners Istanbul Branch and on the editorial staff for the Journal of Planning. He also worked for an urban planning company and prepared...
Yunus Emre is a Transport Engineer at WRI Türkiye Sustainable Cities. He provides support for road safety inspections and audits, and other transport related projects.
He received his civil engineering degree from Sakarya University. His undergraduate thesis was on green building...
Meltem is the Urban Efficiency & Climate Manager with WRI Türkiye Sustainable Cities, where she is currently involved in supporting The SE4ALL Building Energy Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) Initiative. As part of her role, Meltem works with city agencies to assist with the management,...
Tuğçe started at WRI Türkiye Sustainable Cities in October 2015. As an environmental engineer she will assist projects to improve air quality and public health with walking, cycling and reduction of GHG emissions by fuel efficiency and clean fuels. She will also support stakeholder engagement...
Güneş Cansız is the Director of WRI Türkiye Sustainable Cities where she leads to a team of professionals working for the implementation projects in Turkey.
Prior to joining WRI, she has managed projects inside and outside Turkey funded by the Open Society Foundation, Texas Civil...
Cigdem Cörek Öztaş is the Urban Development and Accessibility Manager at WRI Türkiye Sustainable Cities and joined in October 2013. Previously, she worked as a project assistant on a TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) project called, "Industrial Clusters in...
Merve Akı is Urban Mobility Manager at WRI Türkiye Sustainable Cities. She works to improve public space and public life in Istanbul.
Previously, Merve worked as a researcher at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University on a project entitled “Urban Regeneration Processes and their Socio-Economic...
With WRI Türkiye since 2013, Tolga İmamoğlu is responsible from the management of transport and road safety related projects, inspection and audit of bike lanes and BRT corridors, technical advisory for the BRT and bike lane project implementations, integration and accessibility studies for the...
