Education:
- Statistics, Doctorate, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2007
- Statistics, MSc, University of Warwick, 2001
- Statistics, BSc, Middle East Technical University. 1999
Academic and Professional Experience:
- January 2026-current Co-chair of International Science Council’s (ISC) Committee on Data (CODATA) International Data Policy Committee (IDPC) (interim).
- January 2025-current Full member Chatham House, UK
- September 2023-current. Professor at Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University
- August 2022-September 2023 Visiting Worker at the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) with a focus on Disaster Risk Reduction projects and research.
- September 2020-September 2023 Associate Professor at Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University
- November 2019-current. Academic Director of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management (ICPEM), UK.
- October 2019-current. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK.
- February 2020-current. Editorial Board Member of the journal ‘Disasters’
- July 2019-August 2020. Course Director of MSc Disaster Management and Resilience (on campus), Coventry University, United Kingdom.
- April 2019-August 2020. Research Associate at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) Coventry University, United Kingdom.
- Aug.2018-August 2020. Lecturer in Disaster, Risk and Resilience, School of Energy, Construction and Environment, Coventry University, United Kingdom.
- Sept. 2008-June 2018. Director of the Middle East Technical University, Disaster Management Implementation and Research Center, Ankara, Turkey.
- Oct. 2015-June 2018 Associate Professor at Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University
- May 2014-July 2015 Senior Consultant in an NSF project titled ‘Sociotechnical Systems under Stress: May 13, 2014 Soma, Turkey Mine Fire’.
- Sept. 2005-June 2018 Program Coordinator of the World Bank Institute Distance Learning Natural Disaster Risk Management Program: Turkey.
- Feb. 2015 – May 2015. Team member of UNICEF Syrian Refugee Response Evaluation.
- Jan. 2014 – current. Affiliated Faculty, Understanding and Managing Extremes Graduate School, Risk and Emergency Management program at the Instituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia, Italy.
- June 2014 – Nov. 2014. Expert for the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) in Soma Mine Accident Investigation Commission, Ankara, Turkey.
- June 2013 - June 2014. Risk Financing and Disaster Management Specialist, Short-term consultant, World Bank, Washington D.C. USA.
- September 2009-current Alumni of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), trained in Japan on Urban Disaster Risk Reduction
- Sept. 2009-current Affiliated Faculty of Actuarial Sciences at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Research Interests:
- Disaster risk management
- Disaster risk reduction
- Resilience
- Disaster and/or development
- M&E
- Accountability
- Insurance
- Statistics
Selected Publications:
- ‘Communication and Coordination Networks in the 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquakes’, Louise K. Comfort, Suleyman Celik, Burcak Basbug Erkan, Seunghun Lee, Earthquake Spectra, Vol.41, Issue 1,February 2025.
- ‘The ‘PROTECT’ Essential Elements in Managing Crisis Data Policies’, Lili Zhang, Burcak Basbug Erkan, Virginia Murray, Francis Crawley et.al in the CODATA Data Science Journal (Q1), Vol. 23. No.12, pp. 1-17, March 2024.
- ‘Learning from stress: Transforming trauma into sustainable risk reduction’ Louise K. Comfort, Suleyman Celik, B. Burcak Basbug Erkan in the Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, Vol. 4, Special Issue, pp: 25-38, December 2023.
- ‘The need for data policy in times of crisis: An IDPC CODATA report following a scientific workshop held on 22 October 2022 in Leiden, The Netherlands’, Burcak Basbug Erkan, Virginia Murray, Francis Crawley in the CODATA Data Science Journal (Q1), Vol. 22. No.43, pp.1-6, November 2023
- Risk, Profit, or Safety: Sociotechnical Systems under Stress Basbug Erkan, B., Ertan, G., Yeo, J. & Comfort, L., Oct 2016, In : Safety Science. 88, p. 199-210 12 p.
- Identifying Non-adopter Consumer Segments: An Empirical Study on Earthquake Insurance Adoption in Turkey
Basbug Erkan, B., Adiguzel, F., Yozgatligil, C. & Kleijnen, M., 1 Jun 2019, In : THE JOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS.
53, 2, p. 662-685 24 p.
- From Emergency Response to Recovery: Multiple Impacts and Lessons Learned from 2011 Van Earthquakes
Basbug Erkan, B., Karanci, N., Kalaycıoğlu, S., Ozden, T., Çalışkan, I. & Özakşehir, G., Feb 2015, In : Earthquake
Spectra. 31, 1, p. 527-540 14 p.
- Preferences for Earthquake Risk–Mitigation Mechanisms: Experimental Evidence Dinc Cavlak, O., Ozdemir, O. & Basbug Erkan, B., 31 Aug 2018, In : Natural Hazards Review. 19, 3
- Afet Ekonomisi ve Sigorta Basbug Erkan, B., 2018, Turkiye’nin Afet Yonetimi Sosyal, Siyasal ve Yonetim Boyutuyla . Palme Publishing House
- Dunyadan Afet Yonetimi Sistemi Ornekleri Basbug Erkan, B., 2017, AFET YONETIMI II. Anadolu University Press
- In Turkish, Izmir Insaat Muhendisleri Odasi Sanat Tozu Dergisi, Sayi 9, ’Turkiye, Afet Riskleri ve Sanat’, https://izmir.imo.org.tr/TR,214371/sanattozu-dergimizin-9-sayisi-yayiml… , 17 February 2026.
- Book chapter ’Disaster Management Law in Turkiye’ in a book titled ‘Disaster Law’, ISBN:978-981-97-7373-2, Springer Nature, January 2025.
- Book chapter ’Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Impact Actions in T¨urkiye’ in a book titled ‘Disaster and Climate Risk Education’, ISBN: 978-981-97-5986-6, Springer, 2024.
- Book chapter ‘CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES’ in the book titled "CLIMATE CRISIS RESEARCH WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF DISASTER PREPAREDNESS", ISBN: 978-2-38236-634-9, Livre De Lyon, Lyon, November 2023.
- Book chapter ’Disaster Risk Management of Turkey’ in a book titled ‘A Companion to Modern Turkey’s Centennial: Political, Sociological, Economic and Institutional Transformations Since 1923’, ISBN:978-147-449-25-15, Edinburgh University Press, October 2023.
- Book chapter ‘Afet Yonetimi ve Politikalari’ (in Turkish) in the book titled ‘Afet Yonetimi ve Politikalari’, ISBN: 978-625-6952- 78-2, Ekin Yayinevi, Mart 2023
- The Shift From Healer State to Protector State in a 500-year Period: A Critical Evaluation of Painful Development
Struggles in Legal and Administrative Understanding of Disaster Management Strategies in Turkey from 1509 to 2010
Basbug Erkan, B. & Ozden, T., 12 May 2016, Asian Law in Disasters Toward a Human-Centered Recovery. Kaneko, Y.,
Matsuoka, K. & Toyoda, T. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge, 26 p.
- Surdurulebilir Kalkinma Sorunsali Uzerinden Afet-Kalkinma Terminolojisinin Turkiye Ozelinde Yeniden Tartisilmasi
Basbug Erkan, B. & Ozden, T., 2016, Afetlerle Kalkinma Tecrubeler, Politikalar ve Beklentiler. Tiyakioglu, M. (ed.). Efil
Publishing Company, p. 219-264 46 p.
- An Independent Evaluation of UNICEF’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey, 2012–2015
Basbug Erkan, B., Darcy, J., Durston, S., Ballarin, F., Buker, H. & Duncalf, J., Nov 2015, UNICEF.
- Successes and Failures of Compulsory Risk Mitigation: Re-evaluating the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool
Basbug Erkan, B. & Yilmaz, O., Oct 2015, In : Disasters. 39, 4, p. 782-794 13 p.
- An Overview of Insurance and Mining Sector in Turkey Basbug Erkan, B., 9 Feb 2015, The Turkish Insurance and Pension Newsletter, 20, p. 3.
- The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool Basbug Erkan, B., 17 Nov 2014, The Turkish Insurance and Pension Newsletter, 14, p. 5-6 2 p.
- Aciklamali Afet Terimleri Sozlugu
Basbug Erkan, B., Nov 2014, Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority.
- Probabilistic Earthquake Hazard Assessment of Ankara and its Environs
Basbug Erkan, B. & Ozmen, B., 16 Jul 2014, In : Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences. 23, p. 462-474 13 p.
- Risk Analysis Based on Spatial Analysis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) With Respect to Provinces in
Turkey Ciftci, S., Duzgun, S. & Basbug Erkan, B., 15 Mar 2014, In : Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 259, Part B, p. 413-424 12 p.
- The relationship between nonspecific inflammation markers and computerized tomography imaging in non-traumatic acute
abdomen, Kozaci, N., Oguzhan Ay, M., Cetinkunar, S., Soker, G., Basbug Erkan, B., Celikdemir, A., Acehan, S., Gulen, M. & Satar, S., 2014, In : Acta Medica Mediterranea. 30, p. 447-452 6 p.
- Is there any relationship between the nonspecific inflammation markers and the presence of pathological findings
determined in the abdominalpelvic CT scans of the patients with nontraumatic acute abdominal pain?
Basbug Erkan, B., Kozaci, N., Ay, M. O., Cetunkunar, S., Soker, G., Celikdemir, A. & Satar, S., Sep 2013, p. 50.
- Guvenli Yasamak: Afetlerden Korunmayi Ogreniyoruz
Basbug Erkan, B. & Tezgider, G., 2013, Middle East Technical University Disaster Management Centre.
- Personality, posttraumatic stress and trauma type: factors contributing to posttraumatic growth and its domains in a
Turkish community sample Karanci, N., Isikli, S., Aker, A. T., Gul, E. I., Basbug Erkan, B., Ozkol, H. & Guzel, H. Y., 5 Jun 2012, In : European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 3, 1
- A critical review of new disaster management system in Turkey
Basbug Erkan, B. & Ozmen, B., Apr 2012, p. 226-227. 2 p.
- Afet Terimleri, Afet Risk Azaltimi, Afet Ekonomisi
Basbug Erkan, B., 2012, Okul Tabanli Afet Egitimi Ogretmen El Kitabi. p. 307-320
- IMPROVING THE ASSESSMENT OF DISASTER RISKS TO STRENGTHEN FINANCIAL RESILIENCE: Disaster Risk
Management in Turkey Basbug Erkan, B. & Gulkan, P., 2012, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / International Development. 223 p.
- Turkiye’de Travmatik Yasam Olaylari ve Ruhsal Etkileri
Basbug Erkan, B., Karanci, N. & Isikli, S., 2012, Matus Yayimevi
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