Esra Turan Tombak work for Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation as a branch manager of the Energy Efficiency Branch. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in architecture from METU in 1992. After working in the private sector as an architect in architectural offices and site architect in the construction site, she began working in the Ministry of Public Works and Settlement in 1997. She was responsible for the preparation and supervision of the architectural projects of the public buildings, such as ministry buildings, justice buildings, embassy buildings. Also she worked as the jury member of the architectural design competition of important government buildings such as Presidency of the Council of State and Constitutional Court of the Republic of Turkey.
Since 2009 she has been working in the enegy efficiency in buildings department of Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation. She participated in the preparing and supervising the necessary legislation related with energy efficiency of buildings and software for energy performance certificate of buildings.
She is also responsible for the activity “the studies on energy efficiency in buildings” in the Government Plan. She has experience in national and/or international projects, related with energy efficiency in buildings and capacity building that are carried by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation. She is the project coordinator of the IPA Project Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings in Turkey.