Filiz Yilmaz
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| Country: | Turkey |
| Email: | filiz.yilmaz [at] icann.org |
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| LinkedIn: |  [Filiz Yilmaz Filiz Yilmaz]
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| Twitter: |  @koalafil
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Filiz Yilmaz is the Senior Director of Participation and Engagement at ICANN,[1] where she has been working since October 2010.
Inspired by her own experience as a first-time ICANN meeting attendee at ICANN Seoul, Filiz established the Newcomers track and lounge for future first-timers.
Filiz participates in RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRONIC, ARIN, ISOC Turkey, and other IT groups in Turkey.[2]
Career History
Prior to joining ICANN, Filiz was the Policy Development Manager at RIPE NCC, where she had the responsibilities of developing work-plan, managing the activities of Policy Development Office coordinating the bottom-up, consensus based Internet policy making process in RIPE region and ensuring successful implementation of the policies at the RIPE NCC. From 2001-2006, she was the IP Resource Coordinator at RIPE NCC.[3]
Yilmaz worked with the company who brought the Internet to Turkey.[4]
She started her career working at Middle East Technical University in 1996 as the User Support and Informatics Group Assistant Manager and then as a Research Assistant.[5] Her thesis, "A Computational Analysis of Information Structure in Turkish," was recognized as the Institute's thesis of the year.[6]
Education
She holds a BSc. degree in Mathematics and an MSc in Mathematics and Cognitive Science from Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi.[7] Her interest lies in the interplay between humans and technology, and making the internet more humaine and relatable.[8]