Petra Stoel got her bachelors degree in communications at Inholland Hogeschool Rotterdam in 2005. Then, she worked for ING Bank as an HR assistant and as project manager at advertising agency AM + D. In 2008, she moved to Istanbul and became an expat to work as a team leader for HCN customer contact center for 3 years. Currently, she resides in Netherlands working as an account executive at media agency GroupM, and keeping her own blog about Istanbul, www.missistanbul.nl.