Born in January 1945 in Gelibolu^a, Dr. O. Attila CEZIK had his basic education in Ankara and Istanbul, and higher education in Istanbul, London and Reading (UK). His ancestral origins are in Crete (Girit) and Malatya^b.

He received his BSc degree in civil engineering [1] from Robert College (Istanbul) in June 1968 and his MSc degree in advanced structural analysis [2] from the University of London (QMC) in October 1970. He carried out doctoral research between January 1978 - May 1981, and received his PhD degree from Reading University in management science. [3] His main interests include operational research models for decentralised resource allocation, capital budgeting and multi-criteria project evaluation.

In the '70s, he worked as an R&D group leader, and in the 80's, as the head of a research department in the field of building science. [4] He frequently contributed to international events sponsored by UNCHS, UNIDO and CIB, and served UNECE as rapporteur on technological harmonisation of Euro-industries.

In the first half of the 90's, he worked as an engineering and management consultant in projects commissioned mostly by international consortia. [5] He resumed R&D for the second half of the 90's, taking charge of the scientific planning and overall coordination of international initiatives for industrial RTD. [6] In this capacity, he represented Turkey in EUREKA as the National Project Coordinator and served as the head of the EUREKA Chairmanship Office ('98-99). In 2000, he returned to private RTD management consultancy and IT applications practice in Ankara.