Cigdem Cörek

Urban Development and Accessibility Projects Manager, WRI Turkey Sustainable Cities

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Cigdem Cörek Öztaş joined the WRI Turkey Sustainable Cities team in October 2013 as an Urban Development and Accessibility Projects Manager. She has managed the İstanbul Historic Peninsula Pedestrianization Current State Assessment Project and Safe Cycling Design Manual Projects in İstanbul, Bolu and Trakya Region at WRI Turkey Sustainable Cities.

For about 4 years, she worked as an expert at the West Black Sea Development Agency, in the Strategy Development and Programming Unit. Before this, she worked as an Urban Planner in Ankara Çankaya Municipality for a year and she worked as a Project Assistant in a TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) project which was called, "Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Areas: Jewellery Clusters, Competitiveness and Social Networks in İstanbul."

She completed her undergraduate education at Gazi University with a degree in Urban and Regional Planning, and she completed her Master's degree in Social Policy at the Middle East Technical University Institute of Social Sciences. She is now a PHD candidate in the department of Urban and Regional Planning.

The design team she was a part of was recognized in the 2008 "Kahramanmaras Cultural Park Architectural Design Competition" and in the "Terminal Complex Urban Design and Architectural Design Competition for Uşak Province " in 2011.

She has also been oil painting since 1998. Her work has been shown in numerous places, including 10 solo exhibitions and 30 group exhibitions.

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