Advisory Board

Sina Afra
Serial Entrepreneur &
Founder of Tiko

Prof. Dr. Halil Akkanat
Istanbul University, Department of Law
Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Şahin Albayrak
Chief Executive Director
Berlin Technical University
GT-ARC and DAI Labor

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş
Visiting Fellow
Brookings Institution

Prof. Dr. Evren Balta
Özyeğin University
Head of International Relations Department
TÜSİAD Global Politics Forum
Academic Coordinator

Billur Barlın
Solmaz Freight Customs Logistics
Managing Director

Prof. Dr. h.c. Roland Berger
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
Honorary Chairman of Supervisory Board

Ali Bilaloğlu
Doğuş Otomotiv
Chairperson

Ambassador (ret.) Joachim Bitterlich
ESCP Europe Campus de Paris
Professor

Ümit Nazlı Boyner
Boyner Holding
Board Member
Former TÜSİAD President

Prof. Dr. Maria Böhmer
German Commission for UNESCO
President

Emre R. Can
Turkish-German University TAU
Foundation Board Member

Levent Çakıroğlu
Koç Holding
CEO

A. Ünal Çeviköz
Former Ambassador of
Türkiye to London (2010 – 2014)
Party Member, CHP

Ulrich Dietz
GFT Technologies SE
Co-Founder

Dr. Anne Duncker
Goldbeck GmbH
Director of CSR Department

Bülent Eczacıbaşı
Eczacıbaşı Holding
Chairman

Dr. Kristina Eichhorst
Daimler AG
Director International Relations

Filiz Elmas
DIN AG, German Institute for Standardization
Head of Business Development Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Thomas Enders
DGAP German Council on Foreign Relations
President

Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı
Doğan Holding
Chairwoman

Murat Gigin
Tekfen Holding
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors

Selahattin Hakman
Chairman of the Steering Committee
SHURA Energy Transition Center
Senior Management Advisor

Dr. Volker Hassemer
Stiftung Zukunft Berlin
Former President

Dr. İbrahim Karasu
Association of German Banks
Managing Director

Sascha Lechner
Schaeffler Automotive
President Aftermarket EMEA

Dr. Ahmet Lokurlu
Turkish German Energy and Environmental Institute (GTEI)
Director

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Nas
IKV
Secretary General

Dr. Arend Oetker
Oetker Holding
Chairman

Aygül Özkan
ZIA German Property Federation
General Manager

Prof. Dr. h.c. Karl-Heinz Paqué
Friedrich Naumann-Foundation
President

Ruprecht Polenz
Former Member
Bundestag 1994-2013
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee 2005-2013
CDU

Dr. Norbert Röttgen
CDU Member of the Bundestag and
Former Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee 2014-2021

Dr. Michael Schaefer
BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt
Advisor and former Chairman

Katja Scharpwinkel
BASF SE
Member of the Board of Executive Directors

Ulrich Schulze Südhoff
ENERCON CCO

Dr. Nils Schmid
SPD Member of the Bundestag and
Spokesman on Foreign Affairs

Martin Seeger
Managing Partner
Teknokon Group

Dr. Markus C. Slevogt
Advisory, Koç University
Founder, Amarkon Danışmanlık

Nihat Sorgeç
Training Centre Berlin – Bildungswerk BWK Kreuzberg
Executive Director

Dr. Georg N. Stamatelopoulos
EnBW Energie
Member of the Board of Management and COO

Süer Sülün
Mercedes Benz Türk A.Ş.
CEO

Günter Verheugen
Former Vice President
European Experience Director
European Commission

Prof. Dr. Claus Weyrich
(in personal capacity) Siemens AG
Former CCTO

Mustafa Yeneroğlu
Istanbul MP
DEVA (Democracy and Progress) Party

Prof. Dr. Bahri Yılmaz
Sabancı University
Emeritus Faculty Member

Dr. Dieter Zetsche
Daimler AG
Former Chairman of
the Board of Management

Amb. Wolfgang Ischinger
Munich Security Conference
President of the Foundation Council, former Chairman 2008-2022
and Hertie School of Governance Senior Professor

Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ
Doğan Holding
Member of the Board

Michael Schwarz
Baden-Baden Entrepreneur Talks (BBUG)
Managing Director