I hold a Bachelor degree in statistics and a Master's degree in Environmental studies. 

I worked as a statistician at the Turkish State Statistics Institute (TUIK) between 1992 and 2000. Then, I was involved in many national-level surveys and census in the organization. Also, I was in the team which developed a methodology to make cereal cultivated areas by using remote sensing and GIS in at TUIK. Then, I worked at a private consultancy company between 2002 and 2001. After that, I joined the United Nations Office on Crime and Drugs (UNODC) in November 2001. I served for UNODC until 2015. I set up illicit crop monitoring methodologies by using GIS, Remote Sensing and Statistics in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Lao and Morocco and developed the Afghan Opiate Trade Programme during my service at UNODC. 

I have been working independently since 2015.  Since then I have been involved in many evaluation, monitoring, research, data collection, GIS, image processing and statistical analysis related projects in many countries. I conducted projects for the UN, World Bank, EU, many government and NGOs. 

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