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İzmir Özel Tevfik Fikret Lisesi
No:154, Kültür, Cumhuriyet Blv, 35220 Konak/İzmir
Fourth floor
İzmir, İzmir, 35260
Turkey

Filiz Ceritoğlu Sengel

Mayor

Filiz Ceritoğlu Sengel received her Bachelor of Law degree from Marmara University Faculty of Law in 1999. She then completed her master's degree with thesis in Private Law and specialized in Law of Intellectual and Artistic Works. She successfully passed the Trademark and Patent Attorney exams and became entitled to work as a Trademark and Patent Attorney. Sengel served as a member of the Law Commission, EU Harmonization Commission, Education, Culture and Sports Commission, Board Member and Clerk of the Council between 2009-2014. Sengel, who was a candidate for Selçuk Mayor in the 2019 local elections, became the first female mayor of Selçuk after the elections. Between 2019 and 2023, she received many national and international awards for her local development, women's economic and social empowerment, protection of cultural and natural values, tourism, agricultural development, fair and dignified social assistance projects.

Gökçe Gülcüler

Content creator/Entrepreneur

Gökçe Gülcüler, who completed her undergraduate and graduate education in ITU Aeronautical Engineering, Koç University MBA and North Carolina MBA programs, has experience in different fields such as aviation, cyber security, risk management, social entrepreneurship and has worked in different institutions both abroad and in Turkey. Gökçe, who worked as a systems engineer in aircraft engine and missile engine design, took part in the social enterprise Ustamdan as a founder. She was selected as an entrepreneur fellow by the International Youth Foundation, Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Laureate International Network, Endeavor, ITU Core, TUBITAK, and Turkish Entrepreneurship Foundation. Gülcüler, who joined the FBN-I NextGen Leadership Team in 2019 within the scope of civil society activities, is the leader of the FBN-I Podcast Project. She assumed the role of founding co-chair of the TAİDER Entrepreneurship Committee and Sports Community.

Muzaffer Çağlar İşgören

Theater producer

Muzaffer Çağlar İşgören was born in İzmir on March 16, 1980. He studied at the Ege University State Turkish Music Conservatory and the Dokuz Eylül University State Conservatory Opera (Voice) Department. He started his professional theater career by appearing on stage in the play Fehmi Paşa Konağı written by Turgut Özakman. While studying accounting at Dokuz Eylül University, he worked as an instructor in various theater clubs and was supported by the master theater actor Haldun Dormen during this process. In 2005, with Dormen’s encouragement, he founded Sahne Tozu Theater. Again with Dormen’s suggestion, Sahne Tozu Cep Theater, İzmir’s first pocket theater, was established within the same organization.Sahne Tozu Theater Awards were given under the leadership of İşgören in order to support theaters in İzmir. The name of these awards was changed to Bedia Muvahhit Theater Awards in 2013.

Nil Özçağlar Toulouse

Marketing professor

Nil Özçağlar-Toulouse graduated from İzmir Tevfik Fikret High School. She is a marketing professor at Lille University. She is the Vice Rector of International and European Relations at Lille University. Before that, she served as Vice Rector of Research and PhD Programs. She was the Vice President of Scientific Publishing and Open Science at the French Marketing Association. She has been a regular visiting professor at Wuhan University, University of Southern Denmark, Galatasaray University and Ege University in China. Her research interests focus on theoretical issues in transformative research and consumer culture theory; social marketing and public policy implications. She currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Recherche et Applications en Marketing and on the Editorial Review Board of Consumption Markets & Culture, Journal of Marketing, Qualitative Market Research and Journal of Marketing in Brazil.

Pınar Kara

Professor of analytical chemistry

She is a Professor in the Analytical Chemistry Department of the Basic Pharmacy Department of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Ege University. She is an academician pharmacist. In the faculty where she works, she is responsible for the education of the Analytical Chemistry education of the students of the Faculty of Pharmacy as well as the education of the master's and doctoral students. At the same time, there is a Research Laboratory in her faculty where she conducts "Electrochemical Biosensor and Biosensing" research and projects. National and international studies are carried out in this laboratory. Her research subject is to develop biosensing technologies for the diagnosis of Clinical Diseases and to share and develop them in the national and international scientific arena.

Yıldız Hacıevliyagil Cüceloğlu

Author

Yıldız Hacıevliyagil Cüceloğlu was born in İzmir in 1965. She graduated from İzmir Özel Tevfik Fikret High School in 1984 and Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law in 1988. She worked as a lawyer, manager and legal consultant for many years. In 2012, she returned to academic life by turning her direction to a deeper understanding of people. In 2016, she completed her master's degree in philosophy at Galatasaray University; then her undergraduate degree in psychology at Bilgi University and her master's degree in couple and family therapy at Özyeğin University. She is the author of the books 'İşim ve Ben', in which she discusses the career choice process, and 'Değişimin Sırrı', in which she describes the career transformation process. She also prepared the book 'İyi ki: Bir Gönül İnsanı ile Anılar', a memorial book for Doğan Cüceloğlu.

Zeynep Özmeydan

Clinical psychologist

Zeynep Ozmeydan graduated from Ege University and completed her master's degree in clinical psychology at Rumeli University. She is the founder of Akademi OKB. She mostly works on obsessive compulsive disorder, psychological traumas, attachment problems; neglect and abuse, anxiety disorders and panic disorder and provides supervision. Ozmeydan has European EMDR accreditation, is a consultant, facilitator and supervisor. She also provides EMDR Trainings in Turkey and workshops especially in the field of OCD in Türkiye.