
Sinem Demir joined the Climate Competitive Industries (CCI) team of World Bank Group on November 2015 as an Industrial Resource Efficiency Specialist. Based in the Istanbul Operations Center, Sinem serves as global lead for Eco-Industrial Park projects. Prior to joining the Bank, she has worked for several private companies as an environmental and technical consultant active in renewable energy and waste management sector. Her CCI project engagements include Mauritania, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Turkey. She contributed to the Mainstreaming Eco-industrial Parks and co-authored An International Framework for Eco-Industrial Parks, both published jointly with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNIDO and GIZ (the German Development Agency).
She earned a master’s degree in International Management of Resources and Environment from Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg just after she double majored in Environmental Engineering and Civil Engineering at Istanbul Technical University.