Aylin Orbaşlı trained as an architect at the Middle East Technical University, before specialising in building conservation and heritage management. She is a Reader in the School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University and also works as a consultant advising on the conservation and management of historic sites and settlements. She works extensively in the Balkans and the Middle East, and has undertaken assignments at a number of World Heritage Sites in the region, including Petra in Jordan. In Turkey she coordinated the management plans that supported the successful World Heritage Site nominations for Çatalhöyük and Ani, and is regularly engaged in delivering training programmes on heritage management.
