Ahmet Karataş

Organisation: General Directorate of Forestry

Department of Information Systems

Education: University of South Florida, School of Geosciences (2019) — USA

Area of work: Geographic Information Systems in Forestry

Ahmet Karataş was born in Diyarbakır in 1985 and completed his primary and secondary education in Tarsus. He graduated in Forest Engineering from Bartın University’s Faculty of Forestry in 2012 and completed his military service in Manisa on 12 December 2012. In 2014, he qualified for the Ministry of National Education’s YLSY programme. He completed a master’s degree at the University of South Florida in 2017–2019. In 2018, he qualified for academic training as an Urban Forest Management Specialist at Pinellas County Urban Forestry and Landscape Services.

He joined the Department of Information Systems at the General Directorate of Forestry in March 2020 and began doctoral studies at Karabük University in 2022.

He is a member of the TEMA Foundation and the Chamber of Forest Engineers. He is married and has one child.