Ali Şafak Özdemir
Director, Department for Libraries and Museums, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Ali Şafak Özdemir graduated from Istanbul Technical University State Conservatory of Turkish Music in 2002, and completed his Master's Degree Programme at Ege University Institute of Social Sciences in 2004.
In 2007, he lived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for approximately one year as part of a commercial project. In 2013, he began working as a music teacher at the Ministry of National Education and served in state schools affiliated with the ministry for eight years.
Since 2021, he has been working at the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality as the director of Department for Libraries and Museums.