Prof. H. Hakan Yılmaz

H. Hakan Yılmaz completed a master’s degree in Public Policy at Columbia University in the United States in 1998 and a doctorate in the Department of Public Finance at Hacettepe University in 2006. Having served in the public sector for some 20 years, Yılmaz held various positions at the Turkish Court of Accounts and the State Planning Organisation. From 2008 to 2021 Yılmaz was a faculty member in the Department of Public Finance at the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, becoming a professor in 2014. Yılmaz has worked as an expert and advisor on numerous projects in Türkiye and abroad, with institutions such as the EU, the United Nations Development Programme and UNICEF. In 1998 Yılmaz conducted research at the World Bank, and from 2019 to 2022 served as Chief Technical Advisor to the UNDP Local Administration Reform Project. Yılmaz’s academic work focuses on public policy, financial management, income distribution, poverty, social policy and local government finance.