Gökçen Yılmaz Tokgöz

Gokcen Yilmaz Tokgoz – UNICEF Turkiye Programme Specialist / Emergency Coordinator Graduated from Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University, İstanbul in 2009 and later on completed her MA with a thesis on Turkiye’s asylum law in the same department in 2012. Since 2019, working in UNICEF; started as Emergency Officer in Gaziantep Field Office, responsible for multi-sectoral municipality programming. Started working as Programme Specialist – Emergency Coordinator in 2022 in UNICEF Turkiye Country (Ankara) Office responsible of emergency coordination including refugee and earthquake response, municipal programming, and localization. Previously worked in UNHCR Protection Unit focusing on vulnerability assessment, counselling and capacity building and a national NGO Association of Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants (ASAM) on international protection application, protection and lastly as deputy general coordinator.