Administrative Management

A. Gökçenur Çelebioğlu graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Electrical Engineering in 1992. He completed his master's degree in 1997 at Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Managerial Accounting and Financial Control with a thesis on Operating Budgets in an Inflationary Environment. He worked as an Electrical Site Manager at Alsim Alarko between 1993 and 1997, as a Consulting Engineer at Korkmaz Yiğit Holding between 1997 and 1998, and as Deputy General Manager at YKS A.Ş. between 1998 and 1999. He founded TSP Total Solution Provider in 1999 and provided holistic facility management services in many real estate projects, primarily Zorlu Center, for global companies such as Vodafone Turkey, British American Tobacco, and Shell Petroleum, consultancy services in numerous international and local projects such as the Atatürk Airport New International Terminal, NATO Otan, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey New Banknote Printing House, and İş Bankası Towers in Turkey. He has managed technical operation, maintenance, repair, and engineering services in more than fifty hospitals. Çelebioğlu, who transferred his shares and duties in TSP in 2023, established US Unlimited Solutions. He has served as a board member and management consultant to support company shareholders in the areas of institutionalization, strategic restructuring, change management, crisis management, sales, and marketing, establishing, and managing interdisciplinary teams, budget management and financial reporting processes. In 2017, he took part in the founding Board of Directors of TRFMA Facility Management Association as Vice President and served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the association between 2019-2021. He took office as the General Secretary at Özyeğin University as of as of July 8, 2024.

Oğuz Ergin graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Business Administration in 1998.  He joined Digiturk in 2000. Following various Finance positions, he took over the budget and reporting responsibility of Digiturk and its subsidiaries operating in Turkey and abroad. He most recently served as Budgeting, Financial Reporting and Investor Relations Senior Manager between 2011-2019. His fields of expertise are budgeting, financial reporting, consolidation, financial modelling, financial analysis, investor relations and initial public offering processes. As of August 2019, he started to work at Özyeğin University as Deputy Director of Finance. As of November 2020, he was appointed as the Finance Director.

Müge Belbes received her B.A degree in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University in 1998. In 1996, she started her professional career as a Human Resources Specialist at Commercial Union Life Insurance. She continued her career as a Human Resources Manager at Commercial Union Life Insurance, which later changed its name to Aviva Hayat ve Emeklilik. Between 2007 and 2008, she was assigned as a Unit Manager for Training, Development and Recruitment at AvivaSA Emeklilik ve Hayat. Her fields of expertise are compensation management, performance evaluation, career and talent management, recruitment processes, and merger and acquisition. During the recruitment processes she played an active role in employing the Assessment and Development Center applications. She is certified to administer and assess certain quantitative and qualitative aptitude tests and personality inventories, which she actively used during the recruitment processes. She also delivered trainings on Performance Management, Recruitment, and Interview Techniques. She continues to serve as Human Resources Director at Özyeğin University, where she has been working since July 2008.

Ünsal Yavuz received his B.A. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yıldız Technical University in 1993. He was employed by PDK Pres Casting Industry Inc. as an MRP system programmer between 1994 and 1995. He continued his professional career as an MRP and Industrial automation systems software manager at EMC TEMBOR Industry Inc. between 1995 and 1997. He worked at Boykar Makine Defense Industry Inc. in improving and restructuring business processes between 1997 and 1999. Throughout 1999-2005 he was employed by Sabancı University Information Technology Unit as an Academic / Administrative Software Development Specialist, and between 2005 and 2016 he continued as a Software Manager. He has been working in Özyeğin University Information Technologies Director since March 2016.

Dr. Erdoğdu obtained her bachelor's degree from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2002, with a double major, from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of International Relations, and Faculty of Communication, Department of Public Relations. She completed her master's degree at Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Marketing Communications between 2012 and 2014. Erdoğdu, completed the Media Studies Doctoral Program at Yeditepe University Social Sciences Institute between 2017 and 2023, completed her thesis on art communication with an approach that addresses media-communication-consumer behavior and the impact of art on society from the communication dimension and received the title of doctor. After her experiences in Turkey's leading public relations agencies such as MPR, Mese and Strategy, where she worked as an intern and long-term during her university years, she started her professional career with the Akbank Management Trainee program and worked in product management, segment management and marketing communications in the bank's Retail Banking Marketing Department. With her experiences in these fields, she took on the role of Product Marketing Manager. She served as the director responsible for Corporate Communications at the Credit Registry Bureau, which she joined in 2012, and worked to develop and implement communication strategies to raise and protect the brand awareness and reputation management of the institution and its sub-brands and to make this success sustainable. She was responsible for all stakeholders to create and implement communication strategies compatible with the corporate objectives with an integrated approach covering the fields of marketing communication, media planning, digital marketing, social responsibility, event management, press relations and reputation management and internal communication. She started as Integrated Communications Director at Özyeğin University as of May 2024.

She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Information and Documentation Management from Ankara University in 1994. She started her career as an Archivist at a local newspaper in Bursa. She worked as Cataloging Librarian at Bilkent University between 1996 and 1997. She came to İstanbul in 1997 and began working at Koç University Library as Cataloging, Acquisition and Archive Librarian until 2005. She served as Team Coordinator in 2006 at Istanbul Research Institute Library’s foundation. She joined Ozyegin University in 2008. She had been working as Acquisition and Access Services Team Leader until 2017, February. She had been working as Library Manager between 2017-2019. As of June, 2019 She was appointed as Library Deputy Director. Since 2016, he has been working as database liaison at ANKOS. Her fields of expertise are cataloging, acquisition and budget management. She was appointed as Library Director in September 2019.

Cemalettin Gürel graduated from Istanbul Kabataş High School. Gürel obtained his bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering from ITU in 1984 and his MBA degree from the Istanbul University School of Business in 1987. He served as Purchasing Manager at Profilo Holding from 1988 to 1998. Between 1998 and 2003, Gürel worked as Purchasing and Administrative Services Manager at Kıran Holding. During the years from 2003 to 2014, he served as Purchasing and Administrative Services Manager at Finansbank-Fiba Holding. Gürel joined Özyeğin University in January 2015 as Operations Director.

Dr. Arslan received her master's degree in Biotechnology in 1985 and her doctorate in Pedagogy in 2013, from Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski University. In 1998, she completed the Contemporary Management Techniques Specialization Program, which is carried out jointly by Marmara University and Maine University, USA. She worked as Education Coordinator in the establishment of Adapazarı ENKA Schools, General Manager of İzmir Çakabey Schools, and School Manager in the establishment of Kültür 2000 High School. She took part in the establishment and 5-year pilot implementation process of K-12 Laboratory Schools affiliated to the Institute of Educational Sciences, which was implemented for the first time in the Turkish education system. She worked as Deputy General Manager of İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University Erzurum Institute of Educational Sciences and Deputy General Manager of Private Bilkent Erzurum Laboratory High School. During this appointment, she had successful accreditation processes by obtaining the executive certificates of Cambridge University International General Secondary Education Certificate Program (IGCSE) and International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP). She was accepted to the executive certificate program from Harvard University Faculty of Educational Sciences in 2011 and successfully completed it. She worked as an Instructor, Biology Inspector and Senior Management in Education Administration In Bulgaria and Turkey. She worked at AÇEV İz Child Development Center between 2013 and 2018 as the Founding Representative of İz Child Development Consulting and Education Services Inc. She started as a Consultant at Özyeğin University in November 2018 and continues as the Director of the Student Development and Experience Department as of September 2021.

Yeşim Tuba Başaran obtained her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from METU in 1996. She began her career in DOMINET where she served first as a software developer, and then project manager, on Istanbul Airlines Automation Project. Between 2001 and 2004, she joined Primeart where she worked on MRP systems and dynamic web pages. Afterwards, as a Database Specialist, she started to work in Çukurova Holding Media Group (TURKMEDYA) where she became Software Administrator in 2007. She has had a PMP Certificate between 2008 and 2018. She joined Ozyegin University on May 2009 as an Applications Development Manager and since February 2020 she is the Office of Planning and Analysis Director. 

Sema Pak Karaca, received her bachelor's degree from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Statistics in 2001. She started her career as a Research Specialist at Barem Research Company in 2002. She then worked as a Senior Research Specialist at Millward Brown Research Company in 2004 and at TNS Research Company in 2006. During this period, she specialized in research design, proposal writing, report writing, client management, sales and presentation skills. Continuing her career at Ipsos Research Company as of 2010, She fulfilled the duties of internal and external client management, high-level presentations, participating in conferences and panel sessions as a speaker or moderator, organizing workshops, team management, department budget management, setting annual strategic department goals, managing the team/department in line with these goals and ensuring department growth. She provided local and global trainings and seminars. In addition, she has served on the committee that coordinates internal cross-selling for the last 4 years. She started as Sectoral Education and Professional Development Administrative Director at Özyeğin University as of June 2024.

Ms. Yasemin Kilit Aklar graduated from Eskişehir Anatolian High School in 1988, and obtained her bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Marmara University in 1992. She started pursuing her master’s degree in Economics at the Middle East Technical University (METU), during which she was admitted to London School of Economics upon securing a grant for graduate studies from the Turkish Higher Education Council. From 2004 to 2009, she gave lectures on “Politics” and “Turkish Foreign Policy” at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Kocaeli University, where she was also appointed as the Erasmus Institutional Coordinator, Director of the International Relations and EU Office, and a member of the Bologna Coordination Commission. She worked as an instructor and as the International Relations Coordinator at Maltepe University from 2009 to 2011. Between 2011 and 2014 she served as the Coordinator at the International Relations Office at Istanbul Şehir University. She joined Özyeğin University as the Accreditation and Quality Assurance Coordinator in September 2014. She was appointed as Sustainability Platform Administrative Director in September 2021.

Ebru Ocak Armağan received her undergraduate degree from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of History in 2004 and her master's degree from Istanbul University in 2006 in the field of education. Between 2016-2018, she carried out his doctoral studies in the field of Business Management. She started her career at Sabancı University in 2006 and worked at the same university in various positions to support and improve corporate decision-making processes in the field of research management between 2007 and 2021. She established Sabancı University Research Process Planning and Policy Development Office in 2015 and served as the founding manager of the relevant office until September 2021. Her areas of expertise are strategic planning of research and policy development, institutionalization of research, research performance monitoring and evaluation, university ranking systems, and academic performance evaluation system design and installation. Ebru has also been working as an institutional evaluator in the evaluation and accreditation studies of the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council (YÖKAK) since 2016 and has been involved as a project manager in many corporate projects related to the establishment process of the Technology Transfer Office and university ranking systems. She has been working as the Integrated Assessment and Reporting Coordinator at Özyeğin University since October 2021.

Nuray Özışık was born in Istanbul. Upon her graduation from Kandilli High School for Girls, Özışık obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Anadolu University. Özışık is currently pursuing her Master of Laws (LLM) degree in Public Law at Özyeğin University.

Özışık started her professional career in 1985 at the Personnel Administration Department of Boğaziçi University, where she later assumed several managerial positions in various departments of the university. In 2009, she served as the Secretary General of Boğaziçi University. The same year, Özışık joined Özyeğin University as YÖK Relations Coordinator and Advisor to the Rector.

Sıla Oral completed her secondary and high school education at German High School (Deutsche Schule Istanbul) in Istanbul, Türkiye, between 1995 and 2003. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Law at Marmara University between 2003 and 2007. In the early years of her legal career, she specialized in private law at Çağa Law Firm, and worked on press law at organizations like Doğan Publishing Holding and Ciner Publishing Holding.

Between 2007 and 2009, she received her master's degree in "International Trade and EU Law" at Istanbul Ticaret University with a thesis on "Shareholders' Discharge in Joint-Stock Companies." Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in private law at Istanbul University. She passed the Trademark and Patent Bar Exams and is also a sworn translator in English and German. Since May 2013, she has been serving as a Legal Advisor at Özyeğin University.