Dr. Okan Yardımcı is the Head of the Environmental Markets and Alternative Fuels Group within the Energy Transition Department of the EMRA, Türkiye. He has over 20 years of professional experience spanning energy regulation, energy transition, environmental markets, energy finance and energy law.

He graduated from the Middle East Technical University (TR) with a B.Sc. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering in 2004. He subsequently completed an Executive Program in the Economics of Regulation at Michigan State University (USA) in 2008 and earned an LL.M. in Energy and International Law from Penn State University (USA) in 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from Hacettepe University (TR) in 2016 and later conducted postdoctoral research on energy geopolitics at the University of Oxford's St Antony's College (UK), between 2019 and 2021.

Throughout his career at EMRA, he contributed to the design of tariff methodologies, the development of regulatory frameworks and market reforms across the natural gas, electricity, petroleum and environmental markets. He also held teaching positions at several universities at both undergraduate and graduate levels, where he taught courses on energy economics, the financing of energy investments and the economics of regulation.

Dr. Yardımcı contributed to the work of ERRA through his membership in various committees and regularly delivered lectures to energy regulators and industry practitioners across the ERRA network.