If Funda Sivrikaya Serifoglu’s remarkable career path has shown anything it is that making a decision everyone tells you is wrong – can be exactly rig...
Anastasia Ashman | Building an Expat Community
Anastasia Ashman, a long time Istanbul expat, understands what it feels like to not belong to the community in which you live. That is why she created...
Dr. Gülden Türktan | Entrepreneurial Lessons from an Expert
If you have ever wondered just what it takes to make it as an entrepreneur, Dr. Gulden Türktan is the expert to ask. With clarity and the authority of...
Nakiye Avdan Boyacigiller | Sabancı University, A Labor of Love
Nakiye Avdan Boyacigiller knows the time and patience that must go into establishing a global university. For her, it is all about balance between sci...
Charlotte Lamprecht | What It Takes
Texas transplant and corporate leader Charlotte Lamprecht gives her perspective on what it takes for women to be successful in business.
M. Bilge Demirköz | Finding Dark Matter in a Whiteout
How do you look for something if you don’t know what it looks like? M. Bilge Demirkoz is part of the team searching for Dark Matter at the CERN Collid...
Ilginay Göbüt Göksel | The Real-Life Horse Whisperer
Does it ever feel as though your intuitive and rational selves are doing battle with one another? Your brain tells you one thing and your heart anothe...
Judith Liberman | Once Upon an Anatolian Night
Storyteller Judith Liberman speaks of that moment. That moment when everything you have done before converges to illuminate a path forward. Getting to...
Aytül Erçil | A Visionary in Computer Vision
Tech start up stories can sometime sound like fairytales of overnight success. Professor Aytül Erçil’s story of starting one of Turkey’s first high-te...