İpek Boğatur is a Turkish-born communication expert, service operations lead and cultural researcher based in Berlin, Germany. Her interdisciplinary work connects communication, design, and culture, exploring how people and systems create understanding across contexts. ​

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Boğatur received her B.A. in Communication Design from Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul (2008), and an M.A. in Public Relations and Advertising from Akdeniz University, Antalya (2014).

Her master’s thesis, Transformation of Turkish Woman Representations in German Cinema, was later published in the Global Media Journal (2012) and marked the beginning of her long-standing research interest in migration, diaspora, cultural identity and mediatic representations.

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For more than ten years, Boğatur has worked internationally in communication, design, and service operations, leading multicultural teams and large-scale service projects in the technology and SaaS sector, including Booking.com, Facebook, Trade Republic, and GetYourGuide. Her professional expertise extends across quality management, process design, and customer experience, integrating her academic foundation with applied leadership across diverse and high-growth environments. She has managed and coached teams from multiple nationalities and disciplines, developing operational frameworks built on clarity, trust, and intercultural understanding.

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Aside from her corporate career, Boğatur had been actively engaged in European Union programs promoting intercultural dialogue, youth participation, and civic education.
She has contributed to projects under the European Solidarity Corps and Youth in Action initiatives in Germany, Lithuania and Romania.

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Boğatur’s research and writing focus on identity, migration, and cultural heritage, exploring how belonging is negotiated and expressed through communication. Her work also examines music, subcultures, and cinematic representations of women and diasporic identities, tracing how media and cultural narratives shape self-perception and collective memory in transnational contexts.
 

İpek views continuity not as stability but as evolution, a recurring theme in both her academic and professional life.

In addition to her research and corporate practice, Boğatur writes on design, empathy, and mental wellbeing, investigating how technology mediates emotional and cultural experience.