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Necati Ozkan

Political Consultant, Managing Director, Oyku Dialogue International

Necati Ozkan is the President of Dialogue International Agency and a member of the Board of Directors for the International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC). Providing communication consultancy to leaders, candidates and parties, he directed Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s Istanbul Local Elections candidacy campaign in 2009, People's Republican Party’s local election campaigns in 2014, and Ekrem Imamoglu's local elections campaigns in 2014 and 2019. He was selected as a member to World Dream Team for 10 people in 2010. In the same year, he won the Aristotle Grand Prize for international political communication. In 2017, the Washington-based Compol magazine ranked him among the 100 most influential communication professionals in the world.

He has more than 60 international awards including 2 Adrian, 11 Pollie, 5 Reed, 16 Polaris, and 11 Golden Eagle awards.