Mr. Sohbet Karbuz was born in Istanbul in 1965. He received his Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science degrees from the industrial engineering department of Istanbul Technical University, his PhD degree in natural sciences from the Technical University of Vienna, and Postgraduate Diploma in economics from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. Currently he is director of hydrocarbons at OME, an energy industry association.

Before joining the OME he was with the International Energy Agency in Paris. Previously, he worked as research associate and manager at several institutions in Austria, Turkey and Germany. His main areas of interests are oil and natural gas markets, geopolitics, energy security, energy modeling and scenario building. Although he is an engineer and an economist by education, an energy analyst by experience and profession, he is a military energy analyst by passion.