Dijan Balkaroğlu
Project CoordinatorDijan Balkaroğlu is a PhD candidate in Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Istanbul Bilgi University and a master’s degree in International Relations from Galatasaray University.
She currently works as the COP31 Project Coordinator in the Climate Change Program at Sabancı University’s Istanbul Policy Center (IPC). Previously, she served as Advocacy and International Relations Coordinator at TEMA Foundation and as Communications Director and Researcher at the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM).
Her research interests lie at the intersection of climate politics, democracy, political theory, and international relations.
The Climate Change program has been one of IPC’s main research priorities since 2013. IPC’s Climate Change Program publishes policy papers and reports on the energy transition, green economy, mitigation and adaptation policies, and the economic impacts of climate change. The Climate Change program works in the following thematic areas.The Climate Change programme works in the following thematic areas.Mitigation | Climate Diplomacy | Adaptation and Resilience | Knowledge and Communication
