ADJUDICATION TEAM

Chief Adjudicator

Can Okar

Can Okar has been working with the Koç University since 2003 and will be the Chief Adjudicator of the World Universities Debating Championships 2010. He was Champion of the European Universities Debating Championships hosted by Zagreb in 2003 and reached the Semi-Finals of Worlds in 2004, placing in the top ten speakers. As a judge, he has been Chief Adjudicator of the European Universities Debating Championships 2007 hosted by Vehbi Koç and other tournaments across Europe including Paris, Durham and Cologne.

Can will aim to travel as widely as possible before the tournament and will aim in particular to get to the United States, South Asia and North East Asia. In October, he is likely to start his doctoral studies in politics at the University of Oxford.

Contact: c.okar@kocworlds2010.com

Deputy Chief Adjudicator

Josh Bone

Josh Bone, a graduate in History and Political Science from Yale University, has reached the final of the World Universities Debating Championships and been among the top three speakers in the world in consecutive years. He was also Champion of the Cambridge Intervarsity Championships and top speaker at the North American Championships. He has been Chief Adjudicator of the prestigious Yale IV 2007 and adjudicated to the Grand Final of numerous other North American tournaments. He is currently working for a federal judge in Washington D.C.

Deputy Chief Adjudicator

Julia Bowes

Julia Bowes, a student at the University of Sydney, was World Champion of universities debating in 2008 and is the current holder of the Australasian title. She will be responsible for organising judges from Australia and New Zealand (and perhaps Samoa and Fiji). Julia has judged the Grand Final of the World Universities Debating Championships and is considered among the best debaters and judges of our generation.

Deputy Chief Adjudicator

Suthen Tate Thomas

Suthen Thomas, better known as Tate, is a graduate of Multimedia University in Malaysia. In a debating career that has spanned seven years, he has reached the Octo Finals of Worlds, the Grand Final of Australs and was the Champion of All-Asians in 2005. He was Deputy Chief Adjudicator of the 2008 Australasian Championships held in Kuala Lumpur and judged the Grand Final of the World Universities Debating Championships in 2008. Tate is our regional Deputy Chief Adjudicator for Asia, the fastest growing and most diverse region in global debating.

Deputy Chief Adjudicator

Will Jones

Will Jones is a postgraduate studying African politics at the University of Oxford. He is the current World and European Champion of universities debating and is responsible for all adjudication matters concerning Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Will has been part of the Chief Adjudication teams at the European Championships 2007 and other tournaments in Tallinn, Kiev, Amsterdam, Dublin and Oxford, is a former Director of Coaching at the Dutch-Anglo Parliamentary Debating Institute (DAPDI) and the current Scottish Schools Debating Coach. He also wants you to know that he took Guinea Bissau to its maiden victory at the World Masters in WUDC2008.

He will be travelling extensively between now and 2010, for example at the Holy Land Open, Yeditepe and the IONA winter circuit. He is looking for ways of funding a trip to PAUDC and Israeli Nationals and is extremely keen to meet as much of the circuit as possible before Worlds. If you are running a tournament that he can help at, please let him know.

Assistant CA

Handan Orel

Handan Orel, one of our two Assistant Chief Adjudicators, is a law student at Koç University and is one of the most successful Turkish debaters in history. She has reached the final of the Turkish National Championships and been awarded best speaker at three Turkish tournaments. After breaking to the Semi-Finals of the Cologne Debating Tournament, she achieved a first for Turkey - reaching the Semi-Finals of the World Universities Debating Championships (English as a Second Language Category) in 2008. She has since worked extensively on Jessup Mooting and is responsible for coordinating the local judging pool in Turkey.

Contact: h.orel@kocworlds2010.com

Assistant CA

Ozan Mert Ondes

Ozan Mert Ondes, one of our two Assistant Chief Adjudicators, is also a law student at Koç University. He is the only Turkish debater to have broken to the final rounds of both the World Universities and European Universities Debating Championships and he has since broadened his adjudication experience as well. He has been on the Chief Adjudication team of the Turkish Nationals and the Yeditepe Open 2008 and will be Deputy Chief Adjudicator at the Holy Land Open 2009.

Contact: o.ondes@kocworlds2010.com

TAB Director

Ahmet Engin Ural

Engin Ural is an institution at Koç University. When he was President of the Debate Club, it was his idea that we should bid for the European Universities Debating Championships when no-one else would have thought it was possible. At those Championships, he ran the most efficient tab in Euros history and we believe he will achieve that same feat at Worlds, using his experience of tabbing at many other large tournaments over the last five years. Engin was also the Chief Adjudicator of the Turkish Nationals in 2006. He is currently a doctoral student in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University.

Contact: e.ural@kocworlds2010.com