Asl? Hekimo?lu is an Associate Programme Management Officer at the UN Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries. She leads the Bank’s Technology Needs Assessment portfolio, with assessments under way in Nepal and Lao PDR and post-assessment technical assistance and pilot projects in Tanzania, working with national counterparts to identify priority sectors and the technologies that can transform them. She also leads the Bank’s partnership exploring impact licensing as a financing mechanism for technology transfer, alongside wider partnership development and resource mobilization. She served as Secretariat to the UN Technology Bank’s Council, which brings together member states at ministerial and ambassadorial level to guide the strategic positioning of the UNTB as an advisory board.
She joined the United Nations in 2014, serving with UNDP’s Regional Hub for Europe and the CIS and later with its Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, where she managed the global UNDP–SIDA Collaboration Programme on Environment and Climate Change. Before joining the UN she delivered EU-funded technical assistance programmes with ECORYS and ANKON Consulting in Türkiye.
She holds an MSc in Strategic Communications from Galatasaray University and a BSc in Business Administration from Middle East Technical University, and is a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner.