Hello Tomorrow Türkiye Kurucusu ve Başkanı, Enerji Ekonomist ve Girişimci Timur Topalgökçeli kariyer macerasını bizimle paylaşıyor.
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Timur Topalgökçeli, enerji depolamave akıllı şehir çözümleri konusunda çalışan bir enerji ekonomisti ve girişimcidir. Hello Tomorrow Türkiye'yi kurmuş ve Türkiye'de yüksek etkili bir bilim girişimcilik ekosisteminin oluşturulmasını hızlandırmıştır. Daha önce uluslararası Enerji Ajansı'nda (IEA) Paris'te çalışmış ve burada lider yatırım analisti ve IEA’nın amiral gemisi olan Dünya Enerji Görünümü'nün ortak yazarlığını yapmıştır. Ayrıca, IEA’nın Irak (2012), Brezilya (2013), Sahra-altı Afrika (2014) ve Hindistan (2015) hakkındaki özel raporlarının ortak yazarıdır. İngiltere, Fransa, Almanya, İsviçre, Avusturya ve Doğu Avrupa pazarlarını kapsayan Standard & Poor's Investment Division'daki Equity Research Sales'da çalışmıştır. London School of Economics'ten mezun olan Topalgökçeli, Londra'da J.P. Morgan Emerging Market Hedge Fund ve Bangladeş'te Nobel Ödülü sahibi Mohammed Yunus Grameen Bank da dahil olmak üzere pek çok kuruluşta çeşitli pozisyonlarda enerji projeleri üzerine çalışmıştır. Topalgökçeli, 1000 liderden oluşan küresel bir ağ olan Sandbox'ın bir üyesidir. Kinetik enerji depolama alanında küresel kapsamda öncü olan Teraloop'un yönetim kurulu özel danışmanı. Üniversitelerde konuk öğretim görevlisi olan bir TEDx konuşmacısıdır. 2019 yılında Atlantic Council Millennium Fellowship kapsamında yüzün üzerinde ülkeden seçilen 21. yüzyılı şekillendirecek 20 global lider arasında seçilmiştir.
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Timur Topalgoekceli is an energy economist and entrepreneur. He founded and is currently Head of Hello Tomorrow in Turkey, where he is building the local arm of the global science and technology start-up initiative. His main focus is to accelerate the creation of a high-impact science entrepreneurship ecosystem in Turkey. He is currently leading a high-level project on the role of innovation in the energy sector that will be presented to government and industry leaders. Previously, Timur worked at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, where he was a co-author of the annual World Energy Outlook, the IEA’s flagship publication. He worked on supply side modelling and led the group’s analysis of oil and gas upstream investment, cost and supply trends. In addition, he is co-author of the IEA’s special reports on Iraq (2012), Brazil (2013), Sub-Saharan Africa (2014) and India (2015). Prior to joining the IEA, Timur worked in Equity Research Sales at Standard & Poor’s Investment Division, covering UK, French, German, Swiss and Eastern European markets. Having graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Timur has worked on energy projects in various positions, including at a JP Morgan Emerging Market Hedge Fund or Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus’ Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. In addition, he was selected as the only undergraduate to work with post-doctoral research fellows at the Science Po Paris Centre for European Studies on an economic feasibility study of competing European Southern Corridor gas supply projects. As a member of Sandbox, a global network of 1,000 young leaders under 30, Timur has been actively engaging in the field of energy and technology start-ups. He is also a TEDx Speaker, international keynote speaker, university guest lecturer and a member of the jury of the Hello Tomorrow Challenge, Europe’s largest science and technology start-up challenge. Timur was recently selected as an Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow, alongside 20 rising global leaders selected from over 100 countries who will shape the twenty-first century. His specific fields of interest are energy storage and smart IoT technologies, in particular how to design energy systems that will bring about consumers’ behaviour change with large-scale optimisation gains. Timur is fluent in German, Turkish, French and English.
