Global Relations Forum (GRF) is an independent, non-profit membership association founded on May 11, 2009 in Turkey with the committed support of 40 Turkish men and women who have assumed prominent roles in international fora and have received international recognition for their efforts throughout their careers. The founding members include former secretaries of state, university presidents, central bank governors, ECHR justice and retired ambassadors as well as leading business leaders, scholars, artists, and journalists. GRF is supposed to be a platform for engaging, informing and stimulating its members and all interested individuals in all matters related to international affairs and

global issues A global issue is a matter of public concern worldwide. This list of global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread social issues, economic issues, and environmental issues. ...

. GRF advocates a global order of shared influence and accountability and seeks a constructive role for Turkey in that order.

GRF Board Members

Rahmi Koç Mustafa Rahmi Koç (born 9 October 1930) is a Turkish businessman. In 2016, Forbes ranked him No. 906 richest person in the world with a net worth of $2.6 billion. In 2013, he was the Turkish person who paid the most income taxes in his cou ...

, Memduh Karakullukçu, Hanzade Doğan Boyner, Lucien Arkas, Aslı Başgöz, Hasan T. Çolakoğlu, Salim Dervişoğlu,

Suzan Sabancı Dinçer Suzan Sabancı Dinçer, CBE (; born 1965), is a Turkish businesswoman and a member of the Sabancı family in third generation. She is currently chairperson of Akbank, as well as board member of Sabancı Holding. Career Suzan Sabancı Dinçer is t ...

, Ali Doğramacı , Metin Fadıllıoğlu,

Sönmez Köksal Sönmez Köksal (born 8 March 1940) is a career Turkish people, Turkish civil servant. He served in a variety of positions largely in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in international organisations representing Turkey, and was Turkey's Ambassad ...

Gülsün Sağlamer Gülsün Sağlamer (born in 1945) is a Turkish academic, the third female rector in Turkey. Life Sağlamer was born in 1945 in Trabzon. After finishing primary and secondary education in her home city she obtained her MS from the School of Archi ...

Özdem Sanberk Özdem Sanberk (born 1 August 1938) is a retired Turkish diplomat. Sanberk was ambassador to the European Union from 1987 to 1991 and to the United Kingdom from 1995 to 2000. In 2010, he became director of the International Strategic Research Orga ...

Ferit Şahenk Ferit Şahenk (, born 1964) is the Chairman of Turkey's Doğuş Group and one of the richest people in Turkey. Background Şahenk graduated from The American School in Switzerland (TASIS) and earned his B.A. from Boston College with a degree in ...

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GRF Studies

GRF Task Forces

GRF Task Forces are independent commissions that strive to propose policy recommendations on matters that involve medium to long-term uncertainty. Task Force members are diverse in professional backgrounds, experience and opinion but unite around the principles of consultation and search for common ground. Task Force members participate in the Task Force in their individual capacities; their views do not necessarily represent those of their institutions.

Track-II Studies

GRF Community

GRF Community is composed of individuals who participated in one of GRF Programs. YS and YSA programs have been created by GRF to provide its participants with a platform where they can analyse and debate global issues. Students are selected from current undergraduates studying at world’s leading universities and leading universities in Istanbul. YAc brings together young academics that are either in the last year of their doctorate studies or have completed their Ph.D. in Turkey or abroad within the last three years. Participants of YPr are expected to have worked in a private company, a public institution, or an NGO for at least four years, and to be no older than 38.
About GRF Young Professionals Program

Membership

GRF members are Turkish men and women who have assumed prominent roles in international fora and have received international recognition for their efforts throughout their careers. Corporate membership is designed for globally engaged companies, that can contribute significantly to GRF’s work.

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