Filiz joined ICANN in October 2010 as Senior Director of Participation and Engagement.

After receiving her BSc Degree in Mathematics in 1996, Filiz worked at the Middle East Technical University Computer Center, the institution that played a key role in bringing Internet access and IT services to Turkey. She managed the development of a university-wide net ethics program and led training courses on newly introduced Unix and Internet applications.

At the Informatics Institute, she took part in research projects and received her MSc Degree in Cognitive Science in 2001. Her thesis, "A Computational Analysis of Information Structure in Turkish," was recognized as the Institute's thesis of the year.

In 2001, Filiz began work at the RIPE NCC, a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) based in Amsterdam, where she held positions in Internet number resource registration and management and delivered training courses on Internet number resource policy, DNSSEC, and Routing Registry.

As a Policy Development Manager, Filiz also worked with the RIPE community, analyzing and tracking policy proposals and supporting policy implementation.