Dr. Mehmet YAVUZ

He was born and raised in İzmir in 1984. After completing his primary and secondary education in İzmir, he enrolled in the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University in 2002 and graduated in 2006 as the top student of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. In 2007, he began working as an assistant planning expert at the State Planning Organization (DPT) under the Prime Ministry of the Republic of Turkey. He was appointed as a planning expert in 2012. As an assistant planning expert and later as a planning expert, he worked in the fields of higher education and R&D, respectively. On August 14, 2014, he was appointed as Head of the Department of Education and Culture. He held this position until his appointment as Secretary General of the İzmir Development Agency on May 8, 2018. Mehmet YAVUZ completed his PhD in public administration in 2017 and has published academic studies in peer-reviewed journals. He is fluent in English. He is married and has two children.