Volkan Ş. Ediger Writer
Volkan Ş. Ediger, (born 1953, Ereğli-Konya, Turkey) scientist, writer, bureaucrat. Assigned as the first Energy Adviser to the President of Turkish Republic in 1998 and has worked with three presidents since then. 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 scientists awarded on social sciences field. He is also the first recipient of the Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists’ Cevat Eyüp Taşman Award in 2007. He was nominated for his studies on sustainable energy to the ENI Award 2009 but did not get this award.