Demet Özdemir

Demet Özdemir

Senior Advisor

During her 30-year career at EY (Ernst&Young), which started with Arthur Andersen and spent the last 15 years as a Corporate Finance Senior Partner, Demet Özdemir worked with nearly 1000 local and international companies through mergers, acquisitions, public offerings and restructurings. As the Private Equity Sector Leader and Corporate Finance Partner in EY Turkey and Central and Southeast Europe region, Demet led projects in finance, energy and infrastructure, retail, consumer products and service sectors.

She also assumed the role of Growth Markets Leader in the EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa) region at EY -a geography comprising 98 countries with 150,000 employees- where she worked in the areas of entrepreneurship, start-ups, venture capital, and family businesses.

Demet, who has been actively working on gender equality and women’s empowerment in business life, has been a member of the EY Global Businesswomen Advisory Board and the EMEIA Leader who launched the EY Entrepreneurial Women Leaders (EWW) Program. In 2015, she co-chaired the session on “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs” at the W20 Summit.

After leaving EY in 2021, she is now a non-executive director in various companies including Inveo Investment Holding INVEO, Sun Textiles SUNTK, Osmanlı Investment Securities OSMEN, Akenergy AKENR, Gelecek Varlık Non-performing Loans Company GLCVY, Celebi Aviation Ground Handling CLEBI and Kurtsan Medical group of companies. Additionally, she sits on the boards of the British Chamber of Commerce Turkey, Women on Board Turkey and Junior Achievement Turkey.

A graduate of METU Business Administration, Özdemir has a graduate degree in International Accounting & Finance from the London School of Economics.