Hatice KÖKDEN

Hatice Kökden holds a BA in Economics from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University and an MA in Economics from Claremont Graduate School. She is the former Deputy Director of the Economic Research Department at the Turkish Treasury, where she oversaw domestic and international economic developments and led various economic modeling efforts, contributing to structural and competitiveness policy analyses. Ms. Kökden was part of the Treasury team involved in a Macroeconomic Modeling Project with Oxford Economic Forecasting and a Leading Economic Indicators Project with the German IFO Institute. She also served as Economic Counsellor at the Permanent Delegation of Turkey to the OECD in Paris for three years, representing Turkey on key economic committees such as the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) and the Economic and Development Review Committee (EDRC). Additionally, she contributed to Turkey's G20 efforts as a member of the Framework Working Group.