Zeynep Boz
Head of the Department for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Türkiye
Biography
Zeynep Boz is an archaeologist by training and has been heading the Department for Combatting Illicit Trafficking at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Türkiye since 2020. She began her career at the Ministry in 2007, working in the same department, and from 2014 to 2017 she served at the Secretariat of the 1970 UNESCO Convention. Her expertise includes return and restitution, as well as awareness-raising and capacity-building to strengthen efforts against illicit trafficking. She is also the author of the UNESCO Toolkit on Fighting Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property, designed primarily for European law enforcement and the judiciary.