Mehmet Öğütçü was appointed to the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 21 November 2011.
Committee memberships: Member of the Nomination Committee and the Health, Safety, Security and Environment Committees.
Skills and experience: Mehmet is currently Chairman of the Global Resources Partnership, a regional energy finance, investment and strategy Group. He also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the Board of Yasar Holding Group, a leading Turkish conglomerate. Mehmet was appointed in March 2013 as the Energy Charter Secretary-General’s special envoy for the MENA region. He leads Bosphorus Energy Club, a gathering of top energy, investment and geopolitical executives in Eurasia, MENA and Southeast Europe since September 2013.
Previously, Mehmet served as Director for International Government and Corporate Affairs at BG Group, the head of the OECD’s Global Forum on international investment and regional outreach programmes (2000-2005), the Principal Administrator for Asia-Pacific and Latin America at the International Energy Agency (1994-2000), a Turkish diplomat in Ankara, Beijing, Brussels and Paris (1986-1994), Deputy Inspector at Is¸ Bankasi, NATO Research Fellow, the EU’s Jean Monnet Fellow and adviser to the late President Turgut Ozal.