Arda Öztaşkın

Corporate Communications Director, Yapı Kredi Bank (Moderator)

Communicator. Born in Ankara. After graduating from TED Ankara College, he completed his education at the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University. He began his career in the advertising and public relations department at Demirbank. He also worked at Dışbank and Fortis. In 2008, he joined Yapı Kredi as the Brand Management Director. Since 2018, he has been leading the Corporate Communication team responsible for brand management, strategic communication, and sustainability at Yapı Kredi.

He serves as the Vice President of the Association of Corporate Communicators (KID) and is a member of the Advisory Board at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Faculty of Communication and Sustainable Brands Turkey. He teaches “Sustainability Communication” at Bahçeşehir University’s Faculty of Communication. He writes weekly in the “Smart Sustainability” column for the newspaper Nasıl Bir Ekonomi.
He has two published books: “Not a Climate Crisis, but a Humanity Crisis” released in 2023, and “Artificial Intelligence: The Two Faces of Power” published in 2024.