Meral is an experienced program manager and holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and M.Sc. in Operations Research. Currently she is with Morgan Stanley in New York and heading the PMO of a major global project for Transfer Pricing. Meral has spent the better part of her career in Toronto where she worked in a variety of project and program management positions in financial institutions, provincial and federal government and consulting organizations. Since 2006, she is living in the US and actively involved in the project management community there.

Meral has established a number of PMOs throughout her career and participated either as a review board member or content developer in project management training and exam preparation materials. Meral enjoys the positive impact of program management to the firm’s performance by ensuring the programs and projects align with organizational strategy and goals across the enterprise.