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GÜNEŞ CANSIZ

DIRECTOR, WRI TURKEY SUSTAINABLE CITIES

Güneş Cansız started to work for EMBARQ Turkey in January 2014 as Operation Director to support funding, financial planning and reporting, contract, budget, operation and project management fields.

After graduating from İstanbul University, Department of Business, she received her master degree on Quantitative Methods at Marmara University, then she had Project Cycle Management education from Kadir Has University and European Union education from Istanbul Bilgi University. She involved to the European Union, Integration and civil society organizations education program that Istanbul Bilgi University gave to the Civil Society Organization Managers on behalf of “Mor Çatı Women Shelter Foundation”. She completed the postgraduate classes of European Union Economy Program of Marmara University as a honorary student and now she is writing her thesis for the same program.

In 2004, she started her project career as being Project Assistant and continued working at various civil society organizations’ Open Public Institutes, Texas Population Registry Administration, EU, Istanbul Development Agency and Finance Manager and Project Coordinator of the projects funded by Chemonics.

Güneş can speak English and Spanish, she involves scenario writing workshops in her spare time. She prefers cycling for transportation most of the time. Additively she is doing pilates and fitness coaching.