Begüm Özkaynak holds a BA and MA in Economics from Boğaziçi University an Mphil in Economics from University of Manchester and a PhD in Ecological Economics and Environmental Management from ICTA-UAB. She is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her research interests include environmental and ecological economics, sustainable development, environmental conflicts and governance.
Apart from her book chapters, her work appeared in, among others, Ecological Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Futures, Energy Policy, Progress in Planning, Environment and Planning B, Environmental Values, and Toplum ve Bilim (in Turkish). Recently, she has been working on projects investigating environmental conflicts and the subsequent environmental movements in Turkey. She is also a board member of the European Society of Ecological Economics and was the chair of the local organizing committee of the ESEE 2011 conference held in Istanbul.