Burçak Çullu

Burçak Çullu, who has been working in national and international funding mechanisms for 18 years, started her career at the TÜBİTAK European Union Framework Programmes office. In parallel with this duty, she completed her MA thesis on ”European Research Area in the Context of European Union Integration Theories” at the Department of International Relations in Middle East Technical University. She served as the Delegate Specialist and the Turkish Delegate for the European Commission “Marie Curie Mobility of Researchers” and the International Cooperation Programme between 2004 and 2012. She took an active role in Human Resources development for the strategical planning of national and international programmes during this process. She took a key role in the strategical planning of the funds for Turkey’s reverse brain drain and positioning the country as the second most effective in this topic in Europe. Simultaneously, she served as a member of the Advisory Board of 14 different projects carried out within the framework of international cooperation in the geographies extending from Africa to the Western Balkans. In the next step of her career, from 2012-13, she worked as an expert for the Jean Monnet Scholarship Programme which aims strengthening the human resources capacity in Turkey. Then she worked as a programme manager at Koç University. Burçak Çullu has national and international experience in designing and managing social benefit-oriented projects within the scope of the Instrument for Pre-accession tenders, and funding programmes of World Bank, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions. Currently, she is carrying out the task of Turkey Programme Country Director for a global consulting firm, International Consulting Expertise, which is the leading provider of major projects such as the EU Sivil Düşün.