Dr. Uygar Özesmi

Dr. Uygar Özesmi is an Ashoka Senior Fellow, the Founder & Instigator of Good4Trust.org, a Prosumer Economy System. He also chairs the Prosumer Econımy Society. He completed an MSc in Environmental Science at Ohio State University with a Fulbright Scholarship. He continued to finish a PhD in Conservation Biology with a minor in Development and Social Change at the University of Minnesota with a MacArthur Scholarship. He founded the Environmental Engineering Department at Erciyes University and is currently Adj. Asst. Professor at Kadir Has University teaching Sustainable Energy and Ecological Economics. He has over 100 scientific publications, three books, and a daily radio program. He has led and served on many national and international NGOs like TEMA and Greenpeace Mediterranean. He founded many NGOs like Nature Society and social enterprises such as Kusbank.org, Change.org Turkey, and Good4Trust.org.