Lutgarde Vandeput MBE is the Director of the British Institute at Ankara.
[1] Vandeput studied classical archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with a Masters thesis on "Splijttechnieken in de Oudheid: een kritische statusquaestionis van het onderzoek in het oostelijke deel van de Middellandse Zee."
"[2] [3] While working on her doctoral thesis, Vandeput became a research assistant with the Belgian National Research Foundation, working on the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project[2][4] based at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and continued post doctoral work on the project until 2001 when she became an Assistant Professor at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne.
[1] As part of her work there she oversees the Safeguarding Archaeological Assets of Turkey (SARAT) project.
[2] Based on her work in Pisidia, Vandeput has also worked on the BIAA project "Living Amid the Ruins: Archaeological Sites as Hubs of Sustainable Development for Local Communities in Southwest Turkey.