

Meltem Yilmaz
Director of Breeze Network & Consult Ltd
Meltem YILMAZ is the Managing Director in Breeze Network & Consult Ltd since August 2021.
Meltem YILMAZ was a Senior Expert in Planning, Programming and Coordination Unit in the Middle Black Sea Regional Development Agency (Samsun –Turkey) between 2009 - 2021.
She is an expert in Regional Economic and Social Development, building strategies (Social Innovation, Digitalization in Creative Industries, Digitalization and Entrepreneurship, Asset management, Blue Economy, Rural Development, Integrated River Basin Management Plan; Water Resource Management Regional planning, analysis, strategy development; sectoral planning and reporting),
She has an extensive capacity in international networking and building partnership in European Union funded projects with umbrella organizations such as EURADA. She has an extensive experience in training youth and adult people. She is a coordinator in European Union funded projects (MindTheGap, Sumsic, URBAN-NEXUS, LOGIC and MOB RED, in the framework of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme and 7th FW), and a trainer in the framework of SALTO European Program.
Meltem Yilmaz will be a speaker at the International Approaches to Regional Development section (8th of June, 14:30h)