Former Swedish Prime Minister
Fredrik Reinfeldt has been active in Swedish and international politics for over 25 years. As Party leader and Swedish Prime Minister, Mr Reinfeldt reinvented the Moderate Party (centre-right) and formed a four-party alliance that won two successive elections.
Today Mr Reinfeldt is active giving lectures on geopolitical situation, leadership, economy and European and Nordic politics.
In May 2022 Mr Reinfeldt was appointed chair of Visita. Visita represents approximately 8.000 hotels, restaurants and other enterprises in the Swedish hospitality sector.
Since May 2021 Mr Reinfeldt is chair of Drivkraft Sverige. The Swedish Industry Organisation for Sustainable and Innovative Mobility (Drivkraft Sverige) is a national industry organisation for fuel and biofuel producers and marketing companies its members. Drivkraft Sverige works actively with the change to a carbon neutral society by 2045.
In August 2019 he was appointed chair of the newly formed Centrum för AMP. Centrum för AMP is a centre of excellence in the field of activating public spaces. It´s a Swedish model of the BID-concept (Business improvement district) that successfully has been used in for example New York and London.
During the years 2016-2019 Mr Reinfeldt held the post as chair to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The EITI is an international coalition of stakeholders working together to promote open and accountable management of natural resources.
Between 2016-2020 Mr Fredrik Reinfeldt was appointed as Senior Advisor to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Since 2016 he is also Political Advisor to Nordic Capital, a leading Northern Europe private equity investor.
Economist , Former Minister of Finance of Greece
Yanis Varoufakis is a member of Greece’s Parliament and parliamentary leader of MeRA25, the Greek political party belonging to DiEM25 – Europe’s first transnational paneuropean movement.
In his own words, Varoufakis was “thrust onto the public scene by Europe’s inane handling of an inevitable crisis”. In January 2015 he was elected to Greece’s Parliament with the largest majority in the country and served as Greece’s Finance Minister between January and early July of 2015. During those tumultuous six months he faced down the authoritarian ineptitude of the world’s most powerful institutions – the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank; three institutions determined to impose upon the poorest of Greeks the harshest austerity in history. Varoufakis resigned the finance ministry when he refused to sign a loan agreement that perpetuated Greece’s debt-deflationary cycle.
A year later, Varoufakis co-founded DiEM25 (the Democracy in Europe Movement) and, two years hence, in 2018, he launched its Greek electoral wing (MeRA25). Also in 2018, together with US Senator Bernie Sanders, he established the Progressive International – a global movement whose affiliated members exceed 200 million persons from across the world. In addition to these organisational endeavours, he has travelled extensively giving talks and participating in various activist events and projects.
Yanis Varoufakis read mathematics and economics at the Universities of Essex and Birmingham and subsequently taught economics at the Universities of East Anglia, Cambridge, Sydney, Glasgow, Texas and Athens where he still holds a Chair in Political Economy and Economic Theory. He is also Honorary Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Honoris Causa Professor of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Torino, Visiting Professor of Political Economy at King’s College, London, and Doctor of the University Honoris Causa at University of Sussex.
Currently completing a new book entitled Technofeudalism: Capitalism’s stealthy successor (to be published by Penguin in the UK), he is the author of a number of best-selling books, including Another Now: A novel (Penguin UK & Melville House US), Adults in the Room: My struggle against Europe’s Deep Establishment (London: Bodley Head, 2017); Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A brief history of capitalism (London: Bodley Head, 2017), And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability (London: Bodley Head and NY: Nation Books, 2016); and The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy (London: Zed Books, 2011,2015). His academic books include Economic Indeterminacy (London: Routledge, 2014); Game Theory: An introductory Text (London: Routledge, 2003), Foundations of Economics (London: Routledge, 1998); and Rational Conflict (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).
Chairman of the Board of Directors of SANKO Holding
Adil Sani Konukoğlu, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SANKO Holding, was born in 1961 in Gaziantep. He completed his high school education in Gaziantep in 1980 and his English language education at the University of Denver in the U.S.A. in 1984.
In 1987, he started his professional career at the spinning mills within the organization of Sanko Textile between 1992 and 2006, he served as the CFO within the organization of SANKO Holding. He has served as the head of the group, covering the Schools, Hospitals, Cement-Concrete and Yarn-Towels, within the organization of SANKO Holding, since 2006. In addition to the positions he has held as the group head, he held office as the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of SANKO Holding between 2014 and 2020. In 2020, he became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SANKO Holding. Adil Sani Konukoğlu is married and is the father of three children.
Social and professional organizations that he currently takes office in:
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of SANKO Holding
• Chairman of the Assembly of the Gaziantep Chamber of Industry
• Chairman of the Assembly of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) Turkey Textile Industry
• Council Member of TOBB Chambers of Industry
• Member of TOBB High Board of Strategy Development
• Chairman of the Arbitration Council of TOBB
• Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Entrepreneurs in the Organized Industrial Zone in Gaziantep
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Gaziantep Development Foundation
• Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Association
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cement Industry Employers’ Association
Social and professional organizations that he previously took office in:
• Founding Chairman of Gaziantep Young Businessmen Association
• Chairman of the Southeastern Anatolia Association of Exporters of Textiles and Raw Materials
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gaziantep Employers’ Association of Textile Industry
• Chairman of the Gaziantep Chamber of Industry
• Member of the Board of Arbitration of TOBB
• Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem Arbitration Center of TOBB
• Member of the B20 Turkish Business Leaders Forum
• Vice-Chairman of the City Council of Gaziantep
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazisehir Gaziantep Football Club
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sankospor Sports Club
• Member of the Board of Directors of Gaziantepspor (Gaziantep Sports Club)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Arbitration Center
NG Enjoy Otel, Sapanca
M. Avni Kiğılı
Hayat Holding A.Ş. Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Nureddin Nebati
Minister of Treasury and Finance of the Republic of Turkey
Turgay Durak
Türk Tractor Board Member
SPEAKERS
M. Avni Kiğılı
Hayat Holding A.Ş. Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Sani Şener
Vice Chairman of TAV Airports & Chairman of TAV Construction
Vahap Küçük
Chairman of LC WAIKIKI Executive Board
Seçil Yıldırım Çelebi
Genç Başarı Eğitim Vakfı General Manager
SPEAKERS
Başak Karaca
Coca-Cola Turkey General Manager
Engin Aksoy
CEO of Vodafone Turkey
Hakan Aran
Chairperson of İşbank AG
Banu Başar
Bank of America Turkey Country Executive
SPEAKERS
Gamze Cizreli
BigChefs Chairman of the Board
Nurtaç Ziyal Afridi
Yıldız Holding Member of the Board of Directors
İlke Toptaş
Country Director of META Turkey
Sitare Sezgin
General Manager of Teknosa
Başak Vardar
Deloitte Turkey CEO
SPEAKERS
Ali Sabancı
Esas Holding Chairperson
Ali Ülker
Yıldız Holding Chair of the Board
Begüm Doğan Faralyalı
Chairwoman of Doğan Holding
Osman Okyay
Kale Group Vice Chairman and President of Technical Division
SPEAKERS
Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgün
Aselsan Chairman Of The Board Of Directors , President, Ceo
Murat İkinci
Roketsan CEO
Özgür Güleryüz
STM Member of the Board of Directors and the General Manager
Uğur Coşkun
BİTES Defence & Aerospace Technologies General Manager
Ali Emre Sever
Chief Executive Officer of Multinet Up
SPEAKERS
Burak Kuyan
Galata Wind Executive Board Member, Chief Executive Officer
İnanç Kabadayı
Ege Yapı Chairman of the Board
Sina Afra
Tiko, Founder and CEO
Sinem Türüng
Metro Türkiye CEO
Kağan Dağtekin
CEO of Doğan Holding Automotive Group, Executive Board Member
SPEAKERS
Ferhat Keten
Chairman of Keten Grup, Master Architect
Mert Fırat
İhtiyaç Haritası Founder
Murat Pınar
Enerjisa Energy CEO
Ömür Akkor
İnanç Erol
NGN Chairman of the Board, CEO
SPEAKERS
Emre Karter
CEO & Board Member of Citi Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Göksel Aşan
President of Finance Office of Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye
Hakan Ateş
CEO of DenizBank Financial Services Group
Murat Bilgiç
TSKB Chairman of the Board, CEO
Değerhan Usluel
TTGV Chairman of the Executive Board, Board Member, Usluel Group of Companies
SPEAKERS
Gökhan Sığın
Chairman of BSH Ev Aletleri
Hakkı Yıldız
Yıldızlar Yatırım Holding Board Member
Neşe Gök
İnci Holding Chairwoman of the Board of Directors
Zeynep Bodur Okyay
President and CEO of Kale Group
Moderator :
Murat Yetkin
Journalist
SPEAKERS
Bekir Ağırdır
Konda Member of the Board of Directors
Gülfem Saydan Sanver
Moderator :
Metin Canoğulları
Country Managing Partner at EY Turkey
SPEAKERS
Ahmet Musul
Ekol Lojistik Chairman of the Board
Murat Kolbaşı
Arzum A.Ş. Chairman of the Board
Niv Garih
Alarko Holding Member of the Board
Selim Akın
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Akfen Holding
Dr. Bahadır Kaleağası
President of the Paris Bosphorus Institute
SPEAKERS
Christian Wulff
Former President of Germany
Enrico Letta
Former Prime Minister of Italy
Jo Johnson
Former Minister of State for the Cameron, May and Johnson Governments
Nevzat Aydın
Co-founder of Yemeksepeti
SPEAKERS
Emre Kenci
CEO at Papara
Mehmet Ali Akarca
General Manager of Koç Sistem
Neyran Bahadırlı
General Manager of Uber Turkey
Nilhan Onal Gökçetekin
Hepsiburada Chief Executive Officer
Özarslan A. Tangün
Enterprise Rent A Car, Turkey CEO, Managing Partner
Mine Taşkaya
Founder and CEO of GTECH
SPEAKERS
Ahmet Atış
Atış Group Companies CEO
Emre Eczacıbaşı
Member of the Board of Eczacıbaşı Holding and Coordinator of Innovation
Mehmet Ali Ergin
Re-Pie Portföy Co-Founder and Deputy Chairman of the Board
Yiğit Arslan
İstanbul Asset Management Venture Capital Funds Managing Partner
The World of Business and Economics Meets in Sapanca on 25- 28 April 2024
