Türkelli, Gamze E.

Dr. Gamze Erdem Türkelli is a Research Foundation (FWO) - Flanders post-doctoral fellow at the University of Antwerp Law Faculty and a member of the Law and Development Research Group. She is a Visiting Fellow at VU Amsterdam Institute for Environment Analysis - Environmental Policy Analysis (EPA) unit.

She received her PhD in Law at the University of Antwerp (2017). Her doctoral research focused on children's rights obligations and responsibility for businesses and development finance institutions under international law.  Gamze obtained her Bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey) summa cum laude and holds Master's degrees from the University of Paris 1 - Pantheon Sorbonne (France) and from Yale University (US), where she was a Fulbright Fellow. Previously, Gamze worked in the private sector as a research analyst and advisor, and in the non-profit sector in different capacities.

Her research interests include new and old economic actors in development financing and governance, transnational human rights obligations, children’s rights and the links between law and sustainable development.