Prof. Dr. Seda H. Bostanci, who holds two associate professorship degrees, has a primary area of expertise in the field of Local Governments, Urban and Environmental Policies. She has been continuing his academic career as an associate professor at Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration since 2016. She served as the founding Department Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration between 2016-2022. She graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University with a BA in 2000 and an MA in 2002. She completed her doctorate at Istanbul Technical University in 2008. She received a BA in Public Administration from Anadolu University. She worked at Sariyer Municipality between 2004-2010. She continued his academic career at Okan University between 2010-2016. She has been involved in various academic activities in England, Hungary and Bulgaria. She has 4 SSCI publications and her main research areas are local governments, urbanization and environmental issues, political ecology, climate and water policies. Bostanci, received the Emerald Outstanding Paper award for her article in 2022. Seda Yıldırım currently works at Tekirdag Namık Kemal University in Turkey. She has a doctoral degree (PhD) in marketing. She studies on sustainable development, 2030 sustainable development goals, sustainable consumption patterns, consumption patterns, environmental quality and food security. She is married and has two children. She has over a thousand citations by Google scholar. She has many publications in journals indexed by Web of Science (SSCI, SCI-Exp, ESCI and others) and SCOPUS. She published several book chapters in IGI Global publishing. She won Emerald literati award-Outstanding Paper award 2022.