Mr Mehmet Ogutcu | Chairman
Global Resources Corporation

Mehmet Öğütçü, Chairman, Global Resources Corporation, sits on the board of Genel Energy plc. as independent non-executive director and serves as senior advisor to BG Group. He is also the chairman of Invensys plc. Advisory Board. He is on the international advisory boards of APCOWorldwide, KCS, Windsor Energy Group, European Policy Forum, The Oil Council and Beijing Energy Club. Mehmet has more than 30 years of successful track-record in government, diplomacy, international organisations (NATO, IEA, OECD), banking, and energy business. Previously, he served as BG Group's director for international and corporate affairs (2005-2012), the head of OECD's Global Forum on International investment and regional outreach programmes (2000-2005), the principal administrator for Asia-Pacific and Latin America at International Energy Agency (1994-2000), Turkish diplomat in Ankara, Beijing, Brussels and Paris (1986-1994), as deputy inspector at Is Bankasi, Turkey's largest private bank, NATO Research Fellow, EU’s Jean Monnet Fellow, and advisor to the late Prime Minister Turgut Ozal. Mehmet studied international relations at Turkey’s Political Sciences Faculty and completed his MSc degree in International Economy at London School of Economics (LSE) and MA in European Studies at College d’Europe, Bruges. He teaches occasionally at LSE, University of Dundee and Harvard University on energy geopolitics, competitiveness, and investment for development. Known as an international authority on energy matters related to China, Russia, Central Asia, Turkey and the Middle East, Mehmet is a prominent speaker and moderator at international energy conferences. He also provides op-ed contributions to, Dünya, CNBC, CNNTurk, Hürriyet Daily News, Moscow Times, Today’s Zaman, World Journal of Trade and Investment, and OECD Observer. He is fluent in Turkish, English, French, and Mandarin (conversational).