Himmet Murat Güvenç

Graduated from St. Joseph French High School Istanbul. Studied urban and Regional Planning in Middle East Technical University (METU). Received hi Ph. D from (METU) 1991. Worked as a Faculty at METU for about 28 years, joined the Gradualte Program in Architectural Desigh of Istanbul Bilgi University in 2005. He worked on urban social geography, metropolitan industrial and electoral geography and institutional history. He co-curated the Istanbul 1910-2010 exposition. He is the co-author of Emlak Bankası 1926-1998. (an Institutional history of Real Estate Bank and Electoral Atlas of Turkey 1950-2009 Professor Güvenç acted as a member of the executive board ons subesequently as the vice president of (TESEV). He joined Kadir Has University in 2014 and nominated as the Director of Istanbul Studies Center he was a member of of the award winning Şerif Süveydan design team in Taksim Square Competition (2019). Since 2016 he is directing the data analysis and mapping teams for TESEV’s urban data platforms.