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Volkan Ş. Ediger, (born 1953, Ereğli-Konya, Turkey) scientist, writer, bureaucrat. After graduating from the (Middle East Technical University ), he received his PhD from the (Pennsylvania State University ) in 1986. His training is in geology, geochemistry, and palynology and after working as an oil and coal geologist in industry for some years his interest was switched into several energy issues, including energy resources , economics, policy, security and geopolitics. He is married to Elçin Öztürk and has one daughter (Şirin Ediger Bayülgen) and one granddaughter (İstanbul Bayülgen). Ediger’s professional career has been shaped by research, teaching and consultancy simultaneously carried out at industry, university and government. Assigned as the first Energy Adviser to the President of Turkish Republic in 1998 and has worked for a total of twelve years with three presidents, namely H.E. Süleyman Demirel, H.E. Ahmet Necdet Sezer and H.E. Abdullah Gül. Awarded with Sedat Simavi Social Sciences Award in 2006 for his book (Neft and Petroleum in the Ottoman Empire ) and became one of the few authors specialized on science and engineering awarded on social sciences field. He is the first recipient of (the Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists )’ Cevat Eyüp Taşman Award in 2007. He has also been listed in Top 10 Most Influential Voices in the Power Generation Today by (POWER-GEN Europe ) in 2013. He is very active in founding NGOs and also in organizing conferences. He is the founder and president of the (Energy and Climate Change Foundation (ENIVA) ) and founding executive committee of the (Sustainable Production and Consumption Association (SUT-D) ), the first NGOs to be working in energy sustainability and climate change in Turkey. He recently served as the General Chair of ICE 2014, which was held by the (American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) ) in 2014 in Istanbul and (5th Multinational Energy and Value Conference ), which was held in İstanbul in 2015. He has been the moderator of the forum for “The Big Energy Question: Powering Our Urban Future” as part of “The Great Energy Challenge”, a National Geographic Society Initiative organized in partnership with Shell in 2014 in Istanbul after Washington D.C. and in London. == Academic career == Ediger completed his undergraduate (1976) and M.Sc. (1980) studies〔1980, Geology of the Küçük Çamlı Tepe-Orta Tepe Diasporite Deposits (Milas–Muğla), The Middle East Technical University, M.Sc. Thesis, 70 p. Retrieved 2015-06-23.〕 at Geological Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey and PhD study〔1986, Paleopalynological Biostratigraphy, Organic Matter Deposition, and Basin Analysis of the Triassic–(?)Jurassic Richmond Rift Basin, Virginia U.S.A., The Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. Thesis, 549 p. Retrieved 2015-06-23.〕 at the Department of Geosciences of the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), USA in 1986. He was entitled as associate professor in 1992, and full professor in 2010. Dr. Ediger started his academic studies as teaching assistant in METU in 1976-1977 and continued in PSU as research and teaching assistants and laboratory coordinator between 1982 and 1985. He has given undergraduate and graduate courses on various energy subjects and also supervised M.Sc and PhD thesis in METU from 1987 to 2010. His teaching was awarded by the students of the Department of Geological Engineering of METU in 2001. He also received the METU Best Thesis Supervisor Award in 2006. Dr. Ediger became Professor of Energy Economics at Izmir University of Economics in 2010. He also served there as the Founding Director of Research and Graduate Policies (ALP) and Founding Chairman of Sustainable Energy Master Programme in addition to several other committees and boards. He has been working as Professor of Energy Systems Engineering and also as the head of the department at Kadir Has University (KHAS) since 2011. He is the Founding Coordinator of (Strategy Development and Research Office (STRAR) ) and Founding Director of Center for Energy and Sustainable Development (CESD). He is also Chairman of three university committees, member of five university committees and representative of KHAS at Inter-University Council (UAK) and Higher Education Credit and Hostels Institution. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Volkan Ş. Ediger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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