İlkay Çorgundağ is an Associate Director at Arup in Istanbul, where she leads the architecture practice. With more than 25 years of experience, she has worked on a range of multi-disciplinary projects for clients across industries from residential to hotels, healthcare, commercial buildings, sports centres as well as manufacturing and logistic centres.

An experienced design manager, İlkay has worked on all aspects of project development from the initial concept design through to the construction phase, building a solid project management portfolio.

Some of her work includes project managing the redevelopment of Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, the refurbishment of Atatürk Olympic Stadium and Uzbekistan’s Tashkent City Congress Centre and Hilton Hotel project, as well as design managing the new Ashgabat Olympic Complex in Turkmenistan.