Volkan Ş. Ediger

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Born September 25, 1953 (age 70) Konya Province, Turkey ( 1953-09-25 ) Occupation Energy Adviser to the President of Turkey, Professor of Energy Systems Engineering Notable awards Turkish Journalists Association, Sedat Simavi, Social Sciences Award (2006) Middle East Technical University Best Thesis Supervisor Award (2006); Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists Cevat Eyup Tasman Award (2007).

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Volkan Ş. Ediger, (born 1953, Ereğli-Konya, Turkey) scientist, writer, bureaucrat. After graduating from the Middle East Technical University, he received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 1986. His training is in geology, geochemistry, and palynology and after working as an oil and coal geologist in industry for some years his interest was switched into several energy issues, including energy resources, economics, policy, security and geopolitics. He is married to Elçin Öztürk and has one daughter (Şirin Ediger Bayülgen) and one granddaughter (İstanbul Bayülgen). Ediger’s professional career has been shaped by research, teaching and consultancy simultaneously carried out at industry, university and government. Assigned as the first Energy Adviser to the President of Turkish Republic in 1998 and has worked for a total of twelve years with three presidents, namely H.E. Süleyman Demirel, H.E. Ahmet Necdet Sezer and H.E. Abdullah Gül. Awarded with Sedat Simavi Social Sciences Award in 2006 for his book Neft and Petroleum in the Ottoman Empire and became one of the few authors specialized on science and engineering awarded on social sciences field. He is the first recipient of the Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists’ Cevat Eyüp Taşman Award in 2007. He has also been listed in Top 10 Most Influential Voices in the Power Generation Today by POWER-GEN Europe in 2013. He is very active in founding NGOs and also in organizing conferences. He is the founder and president of the Energy and Climate Change Foundation (ENIVA) and founding executive committee of the Sustainable Production and Consumption Association (SUT-D), the first NGOs to be working in energy sustainability and climate change in Turkey. He recently served as the General Chair of ICE 2014, which was held by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in 2014 in Istanbul and 5th Multinational Energy and Value Conference, which was held in İstanbul in 2015. He has been the moderator of the forum for “The Big Energy Question: Powering Our Urban Future” as part of “The Great Energy Challenge”, a National Geographic Society Initiative organized in partnership with Shell in 2014 in Istanbul after Washington D.C. and in London.

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Academic career

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Ediger completed his undergraduate (1976) and M.Sc. (1980) studies at Geological Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey and PhD study at the Department of Geosciences of the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), USA in 1986. He was entitled as associate professor in 1992, and full professor in 2010. Dr. Ediger started his academic studies as teaching assistant in METU in 1976-1977 and continued in PSU as research and teaching assistants and laboratory coordinator between 1982 and 1985. He has given undergraduate and graduate courses on various energy subjects and also supervised M.Sc and PhD thesis in METU from 1987 to 2010. His teaching was awarded by the students of the Department of Geological Engineering of METU in 2001. He also received the METU Best Thesis Supervisor Award in 2006. Dr. Ediger became Professor of Energy Economics at Izmir University of Economics in 2010. He also served there as the Founding Director of Research and Graduate Policies (ALP) and Founding Chairman of Sustainable Energy Master Programme in addition to several other committees and boards. He has been working as Professor of Energy Systems Engineering and also as the head of the department at Kadir Has University (KHAS) since 2011. He is the Founding Coordinator of Strategy Development and Research Office (STRAR) and Founding Director of Center for Energy and Sustainable Development (CESD). He is also Chairman of three university committees, member of five university committees and representative of KHAS at Inter-University Council (UAK) and Higher Education Credit and Hostels Institution.

R&D Works in Industry

Dr. Ediger started his works in industry at the Research Center of Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) in 1977 and served there as chief, manager, deputy head, and project adviser over the years. His career at TPAO mostly included implementation and management of a number of national and international petroleum research projects until 1998 when he became advisor to the president of Turkey. During his industrial career, with the help of United Nations Development Programme Fellowship, he gained great experience on R&D project management during his visits to oil companies and universities in the USA. In addition to research administration and management, he is personally initiated, participated, and coordinated several research projects on petroleum exploration. From 1977 to 1998, his findings are reported in 22 company reports (TPAO Report Nos. 190, 195, 276, 279, 287, 345, 427, 1065, 1185, 1255, 1264, 1265, 1269, 1565, 1755, 1757, 1949, 1964, 2097, 2118, 2191, 2312), some of which are published in various national and international scientific and technical periodicals. Among them the most important ones are Biostratigraphic Atlas of the Autochthonous Sequences in the Southeast Anatolia and A Geological Time Table in Turkish. Both of these studies were the first in Turkey. Two of these reports are published as educational series for short courses on biostratigraphy and organic geochemistry. As a result of R&D studies carried out on palynology at the TPAO Research Center until 1998, Ediger developed a new laboratory technique called MRA (Modified Reissinger Apparatus) and erected 2 new palynomorph genera, namely Transeptaesporites Ediger (1981) and Anatolinites Elsik, Ediger & Batı (1990), and 24 new palynomorph species; Inapertisporites rotundus Ediger (1981), Lacrimasporonoites oviformis Ediger (1981), Dicellaesporites nodusus Ediger (1981), Pluricellaesporites vermiculus Ediger (1981), Multicellaesporites fusus Ediger (1981), Brachysporisporites thraceous Ediger (1981), Transeptaesporites irregularis Ediger (1981), Transeptaesporites symmetricus Ediger (1981), Polyadosporonites enormis Ediger (1981), Polyadosporonites orbis Ediger (1981), Inapertisporites ibrahimii Ediger & Alişan (1989), Uncinulites artuziae Ediger & Alişan (1989), Lacrimasporonites traversii Ediger & Alişan (1989), Dicellaesporites nakomanii Ediger & Alişan (1989), Dicellaesporites akyolii Ediger & Alişan (1989) Dyadosporonites okayi Ediger & Alişan (1989), Multicellasporites elsikii Ediger & Alişan (1989), Anatolinites dongyingensis Elsik, Ediger & Batı (1990), Anatolinites alaskaensis Elsik, Ediger & Batı (1990), Anatolinites alternarioides Elsik, Ediger & Batı (1990), Anatolinites chubutensis Elsik, Ediger & Batı (1990), Anatolinites claibornensis Elsik, Ediger & Batı (1990), Anatolinites holocenicus Elsik, Ediger Batı (1990), Anatolinites reklawensis Elsik, Ediger & Batı (1990).

Sedat Simavi Award

He is the recipient of the Turkish Journalists' Association's , Sedat Simavi Social Sciences Award of 2006 for his book Neft and Petroleum in the Ottoman Empire, which is based on the meticulous research and investigation carried out for 13 years by Ediger on the petroleum phenomenon during the Ottoman Empire Era. The book, which appraises more than one hundred original documents obtained from the Ottoman Archives, also reviews almost all previous literature. In this context Neft and Petroleum in the Ottoman Empire is not only about the petroleum history but also about the energy history, discussing the major economical and political dynamics of energy resources.

Other Awards

Ediger was given Etibank University Scholarship during his undergraduate study and National Science Foundation Research Scholarship during his PhD study in the USA. He won various honors during his education and on his graduation. He has been an elected member of the Sigma XI Scientific Research Society in 1984. He is the owner of Special Contribution Award in Eighth Petroleum Congress of Turkey organized by Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists in 1990 and Conference Special Award in Geological Aspects of Reservoir Characteristics Conference in Baku in 1995. He was given the Certificate of Appreciation in 2000 and Letter of Appreciation in 2001 by the General Secretariat of the President’s Office of Republic of Turkey. He is the first owner of Cevat Eyüp Taşman Award given by Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists in 2007. He was included into "Who is Who in Turkey" in 2000 and into the “Who is Who of the Global Energy Industry” in 2008, IBC’s “Top 100 Professionals” in 2009, "Marquis Who is Who in the World" in 2009. He was listed in “Top 10 Most Influential Voices in the Power Generation Today in Europe” in 2013. He was awarded with the "Certificate of Merit" by AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) in 2015.

Conference Committees and Commissions

Ediger served and has still been serving as member, executive member, and representative at professional societies as follows:

69th Geological Congress of Turkey, April 2016, Ankara, General Chair.

Global Summit on Petroliferous Basins: Basin Evaluation, Research, Modeling and Development, 7–9 December 2016, Philadelphia, U.S.A., Organizing Committee Board.

International Conference on Energy Security and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean, 15–17 October 2015, Kalkanlı, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Co-General Chair.

Sustainable Business Awards, Jury (2015)

IPETGAS-International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, 27–29 May 2015, Ankara, Program Committee

5th Multinational Energy and Value Conference, İstanbul, 7–10 May 2015, General Co-Chair.

II. Nuclear Power Plants Summit, Istanbul, 19–20 March 2015, Scientific Committee

II İstanbul Carbon Summit, 2–3 April 2015, Scientific Committee Co-Chair, Organizing Committee.

İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality 2015-2019 Strategic Plan, 12–13 June 2014, Expert

Gaziantep Municipality, Energy Efficiency in Industry Awards 2014, Jury Member

I. Nuclear Power Plants Summit, Istanbul, 30–31 May 2014, Scientific Committee

38th IAEE (International Association for Energy Economics) International Conference,

Antalya, 6–8 April 2015, Publications Committee Chair (2013–2014), International Program Committee.

AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) ICE–International Conference Exhibition, İstanbul, 14–17 September 2014, General Chair.

I. İstanbul Carbon Summit, 3–5 April 2014, Scientific Committee Co-Chair, Organizing Committee.

Fifth Green Business 2013, Advisory Board.

AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshop on Hydrocarbon Trapping Mechanisms in the Middle East, İstanbul, 10–12 December 2012, Technical Programme Committee

Green Business 2012, Advisory Board.

Sezin Schools, Fourth Futurist Scenario Contest, Jury.

İstanbul Stock Market (İMKB) Sustainability Index Project (ISESI), Advisory Board (2010–)

Second EIF International Energy Congress, Ankara, 21–22 October 2010, President.

Sixth Kadir Has Awards on Renewable Energy Potential and Availability in Turkey, Jury Member (2010)

International Carbon Markets Arena, Istanbul, 13–14 August 2009, Chairman.

INGAS 2009–Third International Natural Gas Symposium, Honors and Advisor Committee.

Thirty-First IAEE International Conference 2008, (The First Zero-Emission Conference Organized in Turkey), Executive Committee

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Public R&D Projects Evaluation Panelist (2008)

General Staff of Turkey, Strategic Research and Study Center (SAREM), External Energy Specialist (2007-2012)

Istanbul Technical University Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department

Industrial Advisory Board (2006)

Istanbul University Scientific Project Evaluation, Adviser (2003)

Second International Symposium on the Petroleum Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Black Sea Area, Scientific Committee (1996)

Eleventh Petroleum Congress of Turkey, Scientific Committee (1996)

Sixth International Symposium on Fossil Algae and Carbonate Platforms Scientific Committee (1995)

Symposium of Geology of Thrace Basin, President of the Scientific Committee Vice President of the Organization Committee (1995)

Turkish Prime Ministry State Planning Organization’s Seventh Five-Year Development Plan, Energy Commission (1991–1995)

IESCA-International Earth Sciences Congress of Aegean Region, Scientific Committee (1990)

Eighth Petroleum Congress of Turkey, Scientific Committee (1990)

Fifth Petroleum Congress of Turkey, Technical Program Committee Secretary (1980)

TMMOB Chambers of Geological Engineers, Petroleum Commission (1982)

Professional Societies

Business-to-Business (B2B) Matchmaking Society, Founding Executive Board (2014–)

Cercle d’Orient, (2014–)

SUT-D-Sustainable Production and Consumption Association, Founding Executive Board (2013–)

AAPG-American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Member (2013–)

Foundation on Energy and Climate Change (ENIVA), Founding President (2010–)

Turkish Council of Foreign Relations, Member (2009–)

Center for Middle East Strategic Studies (ORSAM), Advisory Board (2008–2013)

IAEE Turkish Association for Energy Economics (EED), Founding Member (2005–) Executive Board (2005–2010; 2012–2015), Auditing Board (2010–2012)

Fossil Ankara Group, Member (2001–)

METU Alumni Association, Member (2000–)

World Energy Council Turkish National Committee, Member (1997–)

Ozan Sungurlu Science, Education and Aid Fund, Member (1992–), Science and Education Committee President (1994–1998)

TPAO Personnel Fund, Member (1987–), Executive Board (1992–1993)

Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy, Member (1989–1998)

Ankara Turkish-American Association, Member (1987–)

Int. Federation of Palynological Societies Representative of Turkey (1979–1990)

Turkish Committee for Palynology, President (1979–1980, 1991–1992)

American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists-AASP, Member (1989–1998), Middle East Regional Representative (1989–1992)

Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists-TAPG, Member (1978–)

Chamber of Geological Engineers of Turkey, Member (1976–), METU Representative (1976)

Geological Society of Turkey, Member (1973–1987), Executive Board (1980)

Publications in SCI-SSCI Indexed Journals

Berk, İ; Ersoy, M (2015). "An Assessment of Mining Efficiency in Turkish Lignite Industry" (PDF). Resources Policy. 45: 44–51. doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2015.03.010.

Berk, İ.; Kösebalaban, A. (2014). "Lignite Resources of Turkey: Geology, Reserves, and Exploration History" (PDF). International Journal of Coal Geology. 132: 13–22. doi:10.1016/j.coal.2014.06.008.

Yıldırım, Ç.; Baysan, A. (2013). "Europeanization under Membership Uncertainty: The Cases of Environmental and Energy Policy in Turkey". Uluslararas İlişkiler. 10 (39): 131–152.

Devlen, B.; McDonald, D.B. (2012). "The Great Game in the Levant: Energy Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean" (PDF). Uluslararası İlişkiler. 9 (33): 73–92.

Berk, İ (2011). "Crude Oil Import Policy of Turkey: Historical Analysis of Determinants and Implications since 1968". Energy Policy. 39 (4): 2132–2142. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2011.01.058.

Hoşgör, E.; Sürmeli, A.N.; Tatıdil, H. (2007). "Fossil Fuel Sustainability Index: An Application of Resource Management". Energy Policy. 35 (5): 2969–2977. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2006.10.011.

Akar, S (2007). "ARIMA Forecasting of Primary Energy Demand by Fuel in Turkey". Energy Policy. 35 (3): 1701–1708. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2006.05.009.

Çamdalı, Ü (2007). "Energy and Exergy Efficiencies in Turkish Transportation Sector, 1988-2004". Energy Policy. 35 (2): 1238–1244. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2006.03.021.

Çamdalı, Ü (2007). "Optimization of Fossil Fuel Resources in Turkey: An Exergy Approach". Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects. 29 (3): 251–259. doi:10.1080/15567030600917041.

Huvaz, Ö.; Karahanoğlu, N. (2007). "The Thermal Gradient History of the Thrace Basin, NW Turkey: Correlation with Basin Evolution Processes". Journal of Petroleum Geology. 30 (1): 3–24. doi:10.1111/j.1747-5457.2007.00003.x.

Akar, S.; Uğurlu, B. (2006). "Forecasting Production of Fossil Fuel Sources in Turkey Using a Comparative Regression and ARIMA Model". Energy Policy. 34 (18): 3836–3846. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2005.08.023.

Huvaz, Ö (2006). "Examining the Sectoral Energy Use in Turkish Economy (1980–2000) with the help of Decomposition Analysis" (PDF). Energy Conversion and Management. 47 (6): 732–745. doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2005.05.022.

Madlener, R.; Kumbaroglu, G. (2005). "Modeling Technology Adoption as an Irreversible Investment under Uncertainty: The Case of the Turkish Electricity Supply Industry". Energy Economics. 28 (1): 139–163. doi:10.1016/eneco.2004.10.007.

"Classification and Performance Analysis of Primary Energy Consumers during 1980–1999". Energy Conversion and Management. 44 (19): 2991–3000. doi:10.1016/SO196-8904(03)00102.

Tatlıdil, H (2002). "Forecasting the Primary Energy Demand in Turkey and Analysis of Cyclic Patterns" (PDF). Energy Conversion and Management. 43 (4): 473–487. doi:10.1016/S0196-8904(01)00033-4.

Kentel, E (1999). "Renewable energy potential as an alternative to fossil fuels in Turkey". Energy Conversion and Management. 40 (7): 743–755. doi:10.1016/s0196-8904(98)00122-8.

Batı, Z.; Kozlu, H. (1996). "Tortonian-Messinian Palynomorphs from the Easternmost Mediterranean Region around Iskenderun, Turkey". Micropaleontology. 42 (2): 189–205. JSTOR 1485870.

Batı, Z.; Alişan, C. (1990). "Paleopalynology and Paleoecology of Calamus–like Disulcate Pollen Grains" (PDF). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 62 (1–2): 97–105. doi:10.1016/0034-6667(90)90019-F.

Alişan, C (1989). "Tertiary Fungal and Algal Palynomorph Biostratigraphy of the Northern Thrace Basin, Turkey" (PDF). Review of Paleobotany and Palynology. 58 (2–4): 139–161. doi:10.1016/0034-6667(89)90082-1.

"Sieving Techniques in Palynological Sample Processing with Special Reference to the MRA System". Micropaleontology. 32 (3): 256–270. doi:10.2307/1485620. JSTOR 1485620.

Books and Chapters in Book

2014, History of TKI and Coal, and Coal Strategies of Turkey, Turkish Coal Enterprises Project Report, Turkish Coal Enterprises Publications, Ankara, 497 p., December 2014. ISBN No: 978-605-5310-63-9.

2013, ed., Climate Change and Sustainable Energy in Turkey, ENIVA Publications, 146 p., ISBN No: 978-605-64066-0-7.

2013, “Effects of Climate Change in Turkey: Scientific Evidences”, in: Ediger, V.Ş., ed., Climate Change and Sustainable Energy in Turkey, ENIVA Publications, p. 61-80. ISBN No: 978-605-64066-0-7.

2011, "Energy Transition Periods: Lessons Learnt from the Past", in: The Oil Era: Emerging Challenges, Abu Dhabi, ECSSR (The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research) Publications, p. 175-202.

2011, New World Order in Energy and Turkey, Akademi Forumu No. 67, Ankara, TÜBA-Turkish Academy of Sciences, 62 p.

2009, “Towards the Maturation Period of Turkish Think Tanks”, in: Hasan Kanbolat and Hasan Ali Karasar, eds., Strategic Thinking Culture and Strategic Research Centers: Turkish Think Tanks from the Beginning, Ankara, Nobel Publications, p. 197-207.

2008, "National Energy Report of Turkey: Energy Situation, Challenges, and Policies for Sustainable Development", in: AASA Beijing Workshop on Sustainable Energy Development in Asia, 2008, Beijing, China, InterAcademy Council, p. 77-93.

2007, "Energy Supply Security and Its Relationship with National Security", in: Energy Supply Security, Ankara, SAREM Publications, p. 1–47.

2005, Neft and Oil in the Ottoman Empire, Ankara, METU Press, 472 p., Second Edition in February 2006 and Third Edition in 2007. Turkish Journalists Association, Sedat Simavi Social Sciences Award 2006.