Pelin Kihtir

Pelin Kihtir is the Director of the Business for Goals Platform.  B4G is a collective action of UNDP, TUSIAD and TURKONFED to execute research, studies and dialogues to enhance the private sector’s role for the achievement of SDGs.

Pelin has been working in UNDP since 2010. Before joining B4G Platform management, she has been working in UNDP’s Regional Hub for Europe and CIS on quality assurance and programme support to Sustainable Development, Emerging Donors and Strategic Partnerships at the regional level. Prior to these she has worked on community empowerment in Turkey through nationl and international funded projects.

Prior to her active work in the field of development, she was a research assistant in Middle East Technical University in Ankara and she has a graduate degree on Middle Eastern Studies on Urban Transformation and a bachelor degree on City and Regional Planning.