Murat Ar

Director, Turkish Healthy Cities Association

He graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of City and Regional Planning in 1997. Between 1998 and 2011, he worked with architects, urban designers and landscape architects on design projects in Turkey and abroad. In 2011, he started to work as an urban planner in Turkish Healthy Cities Association and has been working as the director of the association since 2014. He also works as the National Network Coordinator in the WHO European Healthy Cities Network, representing the member municipalities. He was elected as a member of the Advisory Board in 2018 at the WHO International Healthy Cities Conference held in Belfast.