Hilal ÖLMEZ HOSTA

Hilal Ölmez Hosta was born in Ankara in 1990 and completed her primary and secondary education in Ankara. She graduated with honours from Mehmet Emin Resulzade Anatolian High School and in 2012, graduated with High Honours from the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University. During her undergraduate studies, she also completed a minor programme in Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of the same university. She continued her postgraduate studies at the Department of Statistics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Hacettepe University, and received her master’s degree in 2016 with a thesis entitled “Discrete Lifetime Models and an Application Using Data from the 2008 Survey on Domestic Violence against Women in Türkiye (TUIK)”.

She began her professional career in 2013 as an Assistant European Union Expert at the former Department of European Union and Financial Assistance of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. In 2017, she was appointed as a European Union Expert. Between 2013 and 2024, she worked as a Contract and Finance Manager for more than 30 technical assistance, supply and grant projects funded under the European Union’s Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA), managing their monitoring, evaluation, technical and financial verification processes.

From March 2024 to September 2026, she served as the Managing Authority Internal Control Coordinator and Risk Manager with responsibility for preparing assessment reports under IPA programmes, managing the accreditation processes of the Directorate General of Foreign Relations and European Union and coordinating reporting on internal control, risk and performance management. In September 2026, she was appointed as Acting Head of the Contract Management Department at the Directorate General of Foreign Relations and European Union.

Hilal Ölmez Hosta has a good command of English. She is married and has one child.