Assoc. Prof. Başak Demireş Özkul

Biography

Basak Demires Ozkul has completed her master’s in 2001 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambrige, MA USA. She is a graduate of the Urban and Regional Planning Department at Istanbul Technical University and has completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Sir Peter Hall at the Bartlett School of Planning UCL in 2011. She has also experience in international project management, she co-ordinated a successful Interreg IVB North-West application for a five country team. She has conducted various international workshops in the UK and in Turkey. She has also received training in facilitation skills and worked as facilitator at the Centre for Advancement for Learning and Teaching at UCL. Between 2017 and 2020, she served as the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. Since 2020, she has been working as the coordinator of the ITU Environment and Urbanization Application and Research Center Urban Planning Unit. In this unit she is working for the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change responsible for the Turkish Spatial Strategy Plan (TSSP) where she is working as the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) coordinator of TSSP.