Speaker Biography
Ferruh Parmaksız
Country Advisor of Germany
Invest in Türkiye
Graduated from Bilkent University Political Sciences and Public Administration. He earned his MA in International Relations.
He has worked at the private sector, at the governmental sector as a civil servant later on as an bureaucrat and for Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) which is supreme professional organization of Turkish private sector.
Throughout his career he was mainly engaged in positions related to foreign trade, investments and international organizations.
Before being appointed to Frankfurt, Germany as Country Advisor he was the Head of the Investor Services Department. In the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization he served as the Advisor of Minister and was the Head of European Investments Department as the contracting authority of 1,3 billion euros EU Fund. Between 2009 – 2014 he worked in Prime Ministry Investment Agency of Türkiye at the Japan country team. At TOBB he worked at the department of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges and International relations. He actively took part at the customs issues and the updating of Movement Certificates and Certificates of Origins.
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