Orkun Doğan is a PhD. Candidate of Economics at Istanbul Bilgi University. His research interests are political economy, development studies, environmental and agricultural economics. He specialized in quantitative research and data analysis. He is a part of the team BELIS, an experimental economics lab is dedicated activities related to experimental research in economics to test theoretical predictions, to explore regularities of human behavior in taking individual and collective decisions. Orkun holds a master’s degree in specialized economic analysis from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. In BGSE he studied economics of public policy and policy evaluation. During his master, he studied on political economy of development by focusing rural development strategies, agricultural transformation in Turkey. Orkun is a graduate of Boğaziçi University with a major in Economics. During his academic research on agriculture and food systems, he worked in some research projects on rural development, agricultural organizations and agricultural policies. He has an associate degree in agronomy and practicing agriculture. He is interested in agroecology as a set of sustainable and ecological methods for agriculture, and an alternative path for rural development.