Osman Cenk Demiroğlu

Osman Cenk Demiroğlu is a tourismologist and geographer. His research focuses on issues of sustainability and feasibility within the tourism and hospitality industry.

After receiving his BA and MA degrees in Tourism Administration from Boğaziçi University and Istanbul University, respectively, Cenk began pursuing his doctoral studies in the Geography Department at Istanbul University. While being a scholar of the Swedish Institute, he obtained two MSc degrees in Human Geography from Umeå University, with a specialization in tourism and spatial planning. While writing his dissertation, “Climate Change and Ski Tourism,” Cenk also managed projects at the Western Norway Research Institute and Matej Bel University for two years through the YGGDRASIL and the NORKLIMA Fellowships of the Research Council of Norway and the National Scholarship of the Slovak Republic. He completed his PhD in December 2013.

Prior to his affiliation with the Istanbul Policy Center, he served as a lecturer at Boğaziçi University, where he has also carried out critical research with the Climate Change Work Group (IklimBU). Such research found the basis for his IPC project dealing with the vulnerability of ski tourism in light of climate change in both Turkey and Germany.

Demiroğlu served as the director of the School of Tourism and Hospitality at Istanbul Bilgi University from 2015 to 2017 and is currently pursuing his career at Umeå University.