Okan YARDIMCI, Ph.D.
Dr. Yardimci has experience in energy markets, economics of regulation, tariff practices, international business transactions, international law and energy law.
He graduated from Middle East Technical University (TR), Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering in 2004. He received his MBA degree from Atilim University (TR) in 2008 and participated in an Executive Program on economics of regulation at Michigan State University (USA) in 2008. He completed his Master of Laws (LL.M.) at PennState University (USA) from 2013 to 2015. He completed Ph.D. in finance at Hacettepe University (TR) in 2016 with a thesis on “Effectiveness of Regulation: An Investigation of the Turkish Natural Gas Distribution Sector”.
He started his professional career as a reservoir engineer in an international oil and gas company and continued at the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA). He worked in different departments of EMRA such as department of tariffs, natural gas market, electricity market, oil market and finally energy transition. He is currently working as the Head of Digital Transformation Group at EMRA. He gave lectures at undergraduate and graduate levels in various universities and institutions in Türkiye and abroad such as Middle East Technical University (TR), Bilkent University (TR), Hacettepe University (TR), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (China), CIU (TRNC), University of Pristina (Kosovo), ERRA (Hungary). He teaches economics of regulation, financing of energy investments, oil and gas law, petroleum economics, reservoir engineering, production engineering, energy transition. He delivers presentations at international conferences worldwide. His articles and presentations are available at www.enerjiuzmani.blogspot.com.
Areas of Interest:
Energy, economics of regulation, tariff practices, energy transition, electric vehicles and charging, digitalization, green transition, antitrust, Turkish energy market, oil and natural gas, global energy markets, shale gas, oil shale, LNG, reservoir engineering, energy geopolitics, Eastern Mediterranean, energy exchanges, European gas and electricity markets, US energy market, arbitration, mediation, negotiation, energy contracts, international business transactions, energy law, international law, economy of law, finance, econometrics, oil and natural gas prices.
Contact:
Phone : +90 532 7988550
Email : oyardimci@epdk.gov.tr / okany@metu.edu.tr / okanyardimci@gmail.com
Twitter : @OkanYardimci
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