Yasemin Kilit Aklar

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.