{"id":75962,"date":"2025-09-17T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/?page_id=75962"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:01:47","slug":"prof-dr-elif-yolbulan-okan-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/prof-dr-elif-yolbulan-okan-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Elif Yolbulan Okan Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-gb75962-69d7cb2d3affb\"  class=\"panel-layout wp-block-siteorigin-panels-layout-block\" ><div id=\"pg-gb75962-69d7cb2d3affb-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb75962-69d7cb2d3affb-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb75962-69d7cb2d3affb-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75942  alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ElifYolbulanOkan.GSW2026-e1758123109518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ElifYolbulanOkan.GSW2026-e1758123109518.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ElifYolbulanOkan.GSW2026-e1758123109518-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ElifYolbulanOkan.GSW2026-e1758123109518-768x956.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ElifYolbulanOkan.GSW2026-e1758123109518-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ElifYolbulanOkan.GSW2026-e1758123109518-720x896.jpg 720w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ElifYolbulanOkan.GSW2026-e1758123109518-520x647.jpg 520w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ElifYolbulanOkan.GSW2026-e1758123109518-320x398.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Prof. Dr. Elif Yolbulan Okan<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Current\/ previous positions:<\/strong> <strong>Chair, Business Administration Department, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Bah\u00e7e\u015fehir University and Director, BAU Branding and Innovation Center <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"text-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Prof. Dr. Elif Yolbulan Okan is Chair of the Business Administration Department at Bah\u00e7e\u015fehir University and the Director of the BAU Branding and Innovation Center. Her research focuses on brand management, consumer behavior, luxury and experiential marketing, employer branding, and cultural heritage and destination branding. She is particularly interested in blending the analytical power of science with the creative touch of art, while bridging the gap between professional practice and academia to build strong and flexible connections across the past, present, and future of marketing. She began her academic career at Yeditepe University in 2003, completing her PhD on consumer complaint behavior. Besides her academic studies, she actively engages with the business world through executive training, consultancy, and sectoral projects.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Dr. Elif Yolbulan Okan Current\/ previous positions: Chair, Business Administration Department, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Bah\u00e7e\u015fehir University and Director, BAU Branding and Innovation Center &nbsp; &nbsp; BIOGRAPHY Prof. Dr. Elif&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75962","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75964,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75962\/revisions\/75964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}