Timur Goksel

Short Biography

 

He has a BA in Finance and a BA in Public Administration. He studied two years of doctorate studies in international trade and marketing.  Prof. Goksel joined the UN in 1968. He started as Information Assistant then became the officer-in-charge of the newly opened UN information center in Ankara. In 1979, he was assigned as Press Information Officer/Spokesman to UNIFIL at Naqoura and later became a Senior Adviser of UNIFIL in 1995. He lectured in seminars and workshops for diplomats and military officials in New York, Oslo and Helsinki on public information, communication policies in peacekeeping, theory and practice of peacekeeping, and international organizations in Middle East environment. He also lectured on regular basis to officers arriving in UNIFIL on Lebanese politics, the Middle East and techniques of peacekeeping as well as to military workshops on liaison and information collection operations. Prof. Goksel currently teaches at Notre Dame University and the American University of Beirut.