Saadet Özen completed her middle and high school education at Notre Dame de Sion French High School. After graduating from the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Istanbul University, she earned her master’s degree from the Department of History at Boğaziçi University. She is currently pursuing her PhD at EHESS in Paris, focusing on modern travel culture in the Late Ottoman Period. Her published books include Çukulata, Çikolatanın Yerli Tarihi and Notre Dame de Sion, 150 Yılın Tanığı. She has translated works by writers such as Fernando Pessoa, Amin Maalouf, José Saramago, and Albert Cohen from French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese into Turkish. After working as an editor for various publishing houses, she has been working as the publishing director of Everest Yayınları since 2020.