Speaker

In 1997, Dr. F. Neval Genç graduated from Hacettepe University İ.İ.B.F. Department of Public Administration and received her Master's degree in Public Administration from Hacettepe University SBE in 2000. She continued her doctorate in Gazi University SBE Public Administration programme and graduated in 2005. In 2001, Genç started to work as a research assistant in Adnan Menderes University, Nazilli Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Administration, and worked as an Assistant Professor in the Public Administration Department of the same University between 2005-2010, as an associate professor in the same department between 2010-2015, and has been working as a Professor since 2015. Having served as Vice Dean at ADU Nazilli Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Director of ADU Institute of Social Sciences, Dean of ADU Söke Faculty of Business Administration, Genç is currently working as the Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. Dr Genç's main fields of study are crisis and disaster management, urban transformation, governance and metropolitan municipalities. Dr. Genç has many national and international articles and papers in these fields and books titled Transforming Cities and Changing Local Governments (with H. Özgür and A. Yılmaz) and Public Administration from Management to Governance, Governance and Reflections on Turkish Public Administration, Disaster Management, Crisis Management-Covid-19 Pandemic. Genç has also worked in national and international projects.