Tuesday Talks (33)
March 18, 2025 / Tuesday / 12.30 PM
METU Faculty of Architecture, Kubbealtı
Hülya Bayrak, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Project Manager
Topic: A Perspective on Urban and Regional Planning Education through the Experience of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
To bring her regional development work into an academic framework and enrich it with an academic perspective, she pursued a PhD in Urbanism at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. In 2024, she completed her dissertation titled *The Gap Between Regional R&D and Innovation Policies and Their Implementation: The Case of the Eastern Marmara Region*.
In 2023, she worked as a Coordinator for one year on the Başkent OSB Innovation Center Project at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In 2024, she continued working at UNDP on two projects focused on women's employment. She currently serves as a Project Manager for the *Young Women Building Their Future* Project at UNDP.