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Birth Name:

Volkan Ş. Ediger

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Sep 25, 1953

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Ereğli, Zonguldak, Turkey

Age:

71

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

Astrology Data:

Sun

2°

Lib

2'

About Volkan Ş. Ediger

Volkan Ş. Ediger (born 1953, Ereğli-Konya, Turkey) is a scientist, writer and bureaucrat. After graduating from the Middle East Technical University, he received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 1986. His training is in geology, geochemistry, and palynology and after working as an oil and coal geologist in industry for some years his interest was switched into several energy issues, including energy resources, economics, policy, security and geopolitics. He is married to Elçin Öztürk and has one daughter (Şirin Ediger Bayülgen) and one granddaughter (İstanbul Bayülgen). Ediger’s professional career has been shaped by research, teaching and consultancy simultaneously carried out at industry, university and government. Assigned as the first Energy Adviser to the President of Turkish Republic in 1998 and has worked for a total of twelve years with three presidents, namely H.E. Süleyman Demirel, H.E. Ahmet Necdet Sezer and H.E. Abdullah Gül. Awarded with Sedat Simavi Social Sciences Award in 2006 for his book Neft and Petroleum in the Ottoman Empire and became one of the few authors specialized on science and engineering awarded on social sciences field. He is the first recipient of the Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists’ Cevat Eyüp Taşman Award in 2007. He has also been listed in Top 10 Most Influential Voices in the Power Generation Today by POWER-GEN Europe in 2013. He is very active in founding NGOs and also in organizing conferences. He is the founder and president of the Energy and Climate Change Foundation (ENIVA) and founding executive committee of the Sustainable Production and Consumption Association (SUT-D), the first NGOs to be working in energy sustainability and climate change in Turkey. He recently served as the General Chair of ICE 2014, which was held by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in 2014 in Istanbul and 5th Multinational Energy and Value Conference, which was held in İstanbul in 2015. He has been the moderator of the forum for “The Big Energy Question: Powering Our Urban Future” as part of “The Great Energy Challenge”, a National Geographic Society Initiative organized in partnership with Shell in 2014 in Istanbul after Washington D.C. and in London.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Volkan Ş. Ediger: Sun 2 Libra, Moon 3 Taurus, Mercury 15 Libra, Venus 1 Virgo, Mars 6 Virgo, Jupiter 25 Gemini, Saturn 26 Libra, Uranus 22 Cancer, Neptune 22 Libra, Pluto 24 Leo, Venus Conjunct Mars, Mercury Conjunct Neptune, Sun Semi Sextile Venus, Mercury Semi Square Venus, Mars Semi Square Uranus, Mars Semi Square Neptune, Jupiter Trine Saturn, Jupiter Trine Neptune, Jupiter Sextile Pluto, Saturn Square Uranus, Saturn Conjunct Neptune, Saturn Sextile Pluto, Uranus Square Neptune, Uranus Semi Sextile Pluto, Neptune Sextile Pluto

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