Cihan Sultanoğlu

Cihan Sultanoğlu

Cihan Sultanoğlu is assistant administrator and director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States at U.N. Development Program. In her more than 30 years with UNDP, she has held a variety of positions at its headquarters, as well as in Asia, Africa and the Arab states.

Latest Articles

Looking toward Paris: The view from Eurasia

Looking toward Paris: The view from Eurasia

about 10 years ago // COP21

Low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways are vital to help keep the global increase in temperature below 2 degrees Celsius. What does this look like in practice? Cihan Sultanoğlu, assistant administrator and director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States for UNDP, gives us her take in this guest column.

Why it's time for a global agreement on preventing technological disasters

Why it's time for a global agreement on preventing technological disasters

almost 11 years ago // World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

To date, there is no global agreement in place to prevent technological disasters. Now is the time to address this, as world leaders prepare to adopt a new global disaster risk reduction framework in Sendai, Japan. A joint op-ed from UNDP's Cihan Sultanoglu and Rastislav Vrbensky.