GLOBAL 205.02 - Sustainable Cities and Communities Course

Bekir Hakan Aksebzeci gave the GLOBAL 205.02 - "Sustainable Cities and Communities" course. The course is related to SDG 11. Within the scope of this course, there were 2 guest speakers in January:Ülkü Özeren talked about Sustainable Transport and her experience in sustainable cities concept. She has many years of experience in net-zero waste, net-zero carbon projects in the national and international areas. She graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Environmental Engineering in 1997 and graduated from the Environmental Engineering Master's program in 1997. She has set up all requirements/ standards for all environmental, social, biodiversity, wildlife management for Istanbul New Airport Project starting from design to operation phases. She has set up international environmental and sustainability standards for all these activities of the Istanbul Airport Project. She has also worked in developing projects for net-zero waste and net-zero carbon targets for Istanbul Airport. In her previous duties, she also worked for many national and international institutions and companies; in the fields of environment and energy efficiency and environmental management.Assoc. Prof Pelin Alpökin shared her experience in sustainable transport. She graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering in 1995, and graduated from the Transportation Engineering Master's program in 1998. She received his doctorate from Nagoya University in 2005. She has been working as a lecturer at Istanbul Technical University since 2008. She continues her academic studies on "Railway engineering and policies", "Transportation planning", "Finance models in infrastructure investments", "Infrastructure construction contract management", "International construction contracts" and has many international publications. As of 19 July 2019, she was appointed as the Head of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Rail System Department. She is fluent in Japanese and English.