Assoc. Prof. Dr. Başak Özarslan is a faculty member at Gelişim University. Her research focuses on energy economics, macroeconomics, and development economics. She has published various academic studies in these fields and has concentrated particularly on issues related to energy and development policies within the broader context of contemporary economic challenges.

She graduated from the Department of Public Finance at Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. She completed her Master’s degree in the Thesis-Based Master’s Program in Fiscal Law at the Department of Public Finance, Institute of Social Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University with her thesis titled “The Principle of the Prohibition of Analogy in Turkish Tax Jurisdiction.”

She also completed her PhD at the same department and institute with her dissertation titled “The Collection Authority of the Tax Administration in Türkiye and Its Limits.”

For her post-doctoral studies, during the Fall Semester of the 2021–2022 academic year, she worked as a fully funded visiting researcher at the Faculty of Law of University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy on her project titled “Turkey's Individual Application Experience in terms of Taxation Policies: Suggestions for Italy.”

Between 2017 and 2018, she worked on temporary assignment as an Expert at the Presidency of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Türkiye.

Her main research interests include the relationship between taxation and human rights, as well as the individual application mechanism before the Constitutional Court.

She is fluent in English and has a good command of Italian.

Between September 2024 and February 2025, she was a visiting researcher for six months at Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Germany, where she completed her project titled “Analysis of the Carbon Tax in the Context of Environmental Rights and Property Rights and Examination of the Status of Germany and Türkiye in the Face of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.”

She currently continues her academic studies as an Associate Professor Dr., Department of Public Finance- Fiscal Law, Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University.

Ozan Ağlargöz is an Associate Professor of Organization at the Department of Business Administration at Anadolu University, Turkey. He has earned an MSc from Lund University and a PhD from Anadolu University. He has been a guest post-doctoral researcher at Lund University and a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Communication. He teaches management and organizational design at the undergraduate level, as well as leadership and qualitative research methods at the graduate level. He has published book chapters and journal articles and presented his research at international conferences worldwide. His primary qualitative research problematizes working life in and around organizations via critical management studies, using institutional work, leadership, and identity concepts.

Kozal obtained her PhD from Ege University's Graduate School of Social Sciences with a thesis entitled "The 200-Year History of Industrialization in Turkey: Continuities and Transformations (Türkiye'de Sanayileşmenin 200 Yıllık Tarihi: Süreklilikler ve Dönüşümler). Since 2015, she has been employed at Ege University's Department of Economics. During the 2018-2019 academic year, she held the position of visiting scholar at the University of Groningen, where she conducted research for her doctoral dissertation. Her research interests include the political economy of sustainable development, industrialization, and the ecological and circular economy.