Ezgi Yılmaz is part of a network of young Turkish and European leaders from all sectors who come together once a year to engage in intensive dialogue and to share views and ideas about topical social issues. The Turkey Europe Future Forum takes place alternately in Turkey and Germany, as well as in other European countries.
Ezgi Yılmaz has been working as a fundraising and strategic planning professional to national and international culture and arts institutions since 2013. She is graduated from Koç University, Department of Industrial Engineering and completed her master’s degree with Summa Cumme Laude at the University of Bologna within the GIOCA program. In 2013, she started working at İKSV as Sponsor Relations Officer and worked as Cultural Marketing and Communication Specialist at Red Bull Turkey between May 2014 and February 2016. After her role as Fundraising Coordinator at SAHA Association, Ezgi returned to İKSV as a Strategic Planning Specialist in the second half of 2016 and continued her work in the fields of strategic planning, project management and international fundraising at İKSV until April 2022. Ezgi worked for IMPACT on fundraising strategy between September 2022 – April 2023. Since then she is Business Development and Fundraising Manager of Salt in İstanbul.
