Prof. Dr. H. Hakan Yılmaz

hakan.yilmaz@undp.org

Prof. Dr. H. Hakan Yılmaz has completed his master studies at Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs and his PhD at Hacettepe University in Public Finance. He also worked for 20 years in Turkish Government as an auditor at Supreme Audit Institution for five years and later planning expert in State Planning Organization for 15 years. He worked as a professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University in the 2008-2021 period. He is an expert in strategic and financial management of central and local government institutions including hands on experience on capacity building and training. Additionally, he has more than 10 years of international experience in various program and project management (USA, Jordan, Tunisia, Macedonia, Turkmenistan, Moldova) such as Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (process leader position on municipal projects), EU-IPA Strategic Management Project about strategic planning, performance program and activity costing, EU-IPA Disadvantaged People and Elimination of The Barriers Against Their Employability, EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRiT I, advisor to the Prime Ministry Office), UNDP – Turkey’s National Human Development Report on ‘Inclusive Growth’ (Government, Redistribution and Social Protection). He has been studying on fiscal policy, structural reforms, public budgeting, local fiscal management, civil society engagement, fiscal transparency, process and management-oriented monitoring and evaluation systems, public investment programming, inequality and child poverty specifically social programs/taxation on income distribution. He is the author of numerous books, articles and policy papers. He currently works as a professor in the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Business Administration at Atılım University as of November 2021.