Dr. Özgür BOLAT, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi’nden mezun oldu. Fulbright ve Türk Eğitim Vakfı bursu ile Harvard Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi’nde yüksek lisans yaptı. Türkiye’ye dönüşünde Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde iki yıl öğretim görevliliği yaptı. Doktora derecesini Cambridge Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi’nden aldı. 2007-2008 yılını MIT Sloan School of Management’ta liderlik alanında doktora dersleri alarak ve araştırma yaparak geçirdi. 2007 yılında Yeni Zelanda’da yapılan uluslararası bir konferansta ‘En İyi Genç Araştırmacı’ ödülünü aldı. 

Dr. Ozgur Bolat received his B.A. from Bogazici University School of Education, Turkey. He later received the Fulbright and TEV scholarship to study for a Master’s degree at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Upon completion, he returned to Turkey and taught at Bogazici University for two years. Bolat received his PhD at the School of Education University of Cambridge in the UK. During his PhD studies, Bolat spent one year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management as a visiting PhD student and at MIT Leadership Center as a researcher. During this time, he conducted research on leadership and in 2008, he won ‘The Best Young Researcher’ award at an international conference in New Zealand. Returning home to Turkey, Dr. Ozgur Bolat worked as a columnist at Hurriyet Newspaper (a mainstream newspaper with the highest circulation in Turkey) for 12 years and taught PhD-level courses at Yeditepe University and International Final University.