Advisory Board

Michael Schwarz

Mercator Foundation
Executive Director

Cansen Başaran Symes

Allianz Turkey
Chair of the Board of Directors
former TÜSİAD President (2015-2017)

Amb. Wolfgang Ischinger
Munich Security Conference
Chairman and Hertie School of Governance
Senior Prof. for Security Policy & Diplomatic Practice

Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ
Doğan Holding
Member of the Board

Sina Afra
Evtiko
CEO

Prof. Dr. Halil Akkanat 
Turkish-German University (TDU)
Rector

Billur Barlın
Solmaz Freight Customs Logistics
Head of Contract Logistics Coordinator

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

Ali Bilaloğlu
Doğuş Otomotiv
Board Member

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

Ümit Nazlı Boyner
Boyner Holding
Board Member and Former TÜSİAD President

Prof. Dr. Maria Böhmer
German Commission for UNESCO
President

Dr. Hubert Braun
Bayer Turkey
Former MD & CFO

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

Levent Çakıroğlu
Koç Holding
CEO

A. Ünal Çeviköz
CHP Istanbul MP
Vice Chairman on Foreign Affairs
former Ambassador

Ulrich Dietz
BITKOM
Vice President

Bülent Eczacıbaşı
Eczacıbaşı Holding
Chairman

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

Atalay Gümrah
Eczacıbaşı Group
CEO

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

Dr. Volker Hassemer
Stiftung Zukunft Berlin
President

Bernd Hüttemann
European Movement Germany
Secretary General

Dr. İbrahim Karasu 
Association of German Banks
Member of the Management Board

Hans-Dieter Kettwig 
ENERCON Managing Director

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

Dr. rer. pol. Stefan Mair
SWP
Director and Executive Chairman

Özcan Mutlu 
Disability and Rehabilitation Sports Association (BSB) Berlin
President

Wolfgang Niedermark 
BDI
Member of the Executive Board

Dr. Arend Oetker 
Oetker Holding
Chairman

Deniz Ova
IKSV Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
Director of Istanbul Design Biennial

Soli Özel
Kadir Has University
Faculty Member

Aygül Özkan
ZIA German Property Federation
General Manager

Özlem Özüner
MMCD Director
Euler Hermes UK & Ireland

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

Prof. Dr. Jörg Rocholl
ESMT
President

Dr. Norbert Röttgen
Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee
and CDU Member
Bundestag

Joachim Rumstadt
STEAG
CEO

Mehmet Safaltın
(in temporary capacity) SCHAEFFLER
General Manager Turkey

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

Katja Scharpwinkel
BASF
President Region Europe, Middle East, Africa

Dr. Nils Schmid
SPD Member
Bundestag

Dr. Markus C. Slevogt
German-Turkish Chamber of Industry and Commerce
President

Nihat Sorgeç
Training Centre Berlin – Bildungswerk BWK Kreuzberg
Executive Director

Süer Sülün
Mercedes Benz Türk A.Ş.
CEO

Dr. Ellen Ueberschär
Heinrich Böll Foundation
President

Günter Verheugen
Former Vice President
European Commission European Experience Director

Dr. Reimar Volker
Goethe Institute Istanbul
Director

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
Professor

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

Dr. Hans-Josef Zimmer
EnBW Energie
CTO