Orhan Gazi Yalcin

Orhan Gazi Yalcin is a doctoral researcher in the Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate - Rights of Internet of Everything, funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

He has an LLB in Law and a BA in Business Administration from Koç University and completed the LL.M. program in Public Law at Koç University with the thesis titled “Taxation of Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings”. During his exchange period, he completed an AI minor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

He has professional experience as a lawyer and a business development associate. He worked as a legal trainee for Allen & Overy on capital markets, competition, and corporate law matters before qualifying as a lawyer.
Previously, he worked on a legaltech project, called Legalist, which is the first online agreement generation platform in Turkey. Before starting his Ph.D., he worked at Endeavor Turkey as a business development associate and conducted legal informatics research as a consultant at the World Bank.

His doctoral research focuses on governing algorithms in the Big Data era for balancing new digital rights.