Asiye was born in the The Netherlands in 1974. She started her education in The Netherlands and continued in Turkey where she graduated from Uludag University, Department of Foreign Languages. In 1997 she started her career in the steel industry and later moved to Tezcan Galvaniz, where she worked as an Export Manager for 3 years and Foreign Trade Manager for 10 years. She still continues works in Tezcan Galvaniz as Commercial & Administrative Director. Asiye, is married and has one son. She speaks English, Dutch and German.

Dr Yayan earned B.A. degrees from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University in 1977 and the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University in 1987. He then received his PhD degree from Istanbul University Faculty of Economics in 1997. Dr Yayan has diplomas from the University of Michigan on Economy of Development and Population; from the University of Sussex on Labor Market Information System and Japan Int. Coop. Agency on development and improvement of employment. After serving 22 years in the government from expert to Under secretary levels between 1976-1998, he was appointed as Secretary General to the Turkish Steel Producers Association in 1998. On 25 September 2017, Dr. Yayan was appointed as Under secretary to the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. In August 2018, Yayan retired from the government and returned to his position of Secretary General at the Turkish Steel Producers Association.

Gökhan was born at Kayseri, Turkey, in 1966. He has graduated from Kayseri Ticaret Lisesi and Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, Finance Department. Since 1983, he has been actively working within the steel industry. He is the founder of Gökmetal Sac San. Ve Dış Tic. A.S. acting as the CEO with 100% shareholding. He is also the acting Chairman of Board of Directors at YISAD, Flat Steel Import-Export and Producers Association, which was founded in 2002 by flat steel sector companies.

Mehmet Ali has been a board member of YAMETAS since 2001 - the tube manufacturer and steel service center established in 1966. Mehmet Ali graduated from Istanbul University where he studied Economics, and started his career working in audit and foreign trade departments of several companies. After Mehmet Ali joined YAMETAS, he was involved in the establishing two new companies. The first being APROFIL, for roll forming of special sections, and the second being PDS MAKINA, for machinery and equipment. Mehmet Ali is on the board of YİSAD, on the audit board of ÇİB, steel committee chairman of İSO (Istanbul Chamber of Industry), and deputy chairman of İAYOSB (Istanbul Anatolian Side Industry Zone).

Başar joined PwC Turkey to establish Financial Services Research & Analysis unit in 2011 and became Chief Economist as of 2016 representing Turkey within PwC global economy network. He has experience in advanced macroeconomic analysis. Before joining PwC, he worked as an economist of the Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB) and he had a short experience in ICBC as a member of the market risk management team. He represents PwC Turkey in local and international conferences as speaker on the Turkish economy. Başar completed his Master of Arts in Economics and Finance program at the Boğaziçi University as first honor after he has got his BA degree of Economics (English) from Marmara University. He has been mentoring students at Boğaziçi University and provides some courses as a visiting lecturer in various universities.

Fatih graduated from Istanbul Technical University in Industrial Engineering in 1999. He started his career at Basak Hayat Sigorta where he worked until 2003. Fatih led various marketing projects such as the establishment of new Individual Pension Firm and the launch of first multi-funded life insurance products in Turkey. From 2003 he worked at Toyota as Marketing Unit Manager. At Toyota, his CLM & Lead Management studies have been rewarded as “Best Practice” by Toyota Global Knowledge Center. In 2009, he started working at “Multiturkmall” and carried out special commercial campaigns in cooperation with Garanti Bank. Between 2010 - 2013 Fatih has worked as the Pricing and Planning Manager at Erdemir, the biggest integrated flat steel producer operating in Turkey, and since March 2013 he has held the position of Marketing Director at Erdemir.

Gorkem received his master's degree in Management of Business Administration in 2002 from La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA. He started his career in the US, working in multinational companies such as Saint Gobain. Later, he went on to work in the stock market fortune 500 company SEI Investments as a mutual fund trader in the US. In 2005, he took a challenge in the steel industry and started to work for steel producers as an executive for export markets. Then, he was appointed as a director of the steel desk of LN metals, a commodity trading company in London. In 2012, Gorkem founded Galex Steel International -- a trading house mainly focused on flat steel products and exports to Europe, Turkey, South America, Middle East and Far East. Galex represents reputable government and private mills from China, India and Turkey on regional or project basis. The company covers global markets through its offices in Turkey, China, India and Russia.

Gonzalo is Chief Marketing Officer for Turkey, Middle East and North Africa at ArcelorMittal Flat Europe. A Telecommunications Engineer from the Universidad de Navarra (Spain) and MBA from ESCP-EAP (France), Gonzalo has spent most of his professional career in the steel business. Gonzalo has held several positions at ArcelorMittal in Construction, Distribution, Steel Service Centers and Flat Products in different countries in Europe and North Africa.

Şahap graduated from Hacettepe University in 2000 and completed masters degree in International Trade and Finance in 2015. Şahap started work at the Turkish Steel Producers Assocaition in 2000. During his 17 years at the Association, Şahap had opportunity to work within the Turkish steel industry on a broad range of aspects and gain a comprehensive and clear view of the industry. Working at the umbrella organization provided him with a unique experience of working in the steel sector on a national level. He prepared many analysis, reports, presentations and articles about the Turkish steel industry. Now he is heading SteelData, the largest online steel statistics database on the Turkish steel market.

Asuman was born in 1953. After serving in various managerial positions in the banking sector for 30 years, in 2001, she moved to the iron and steel sector where she has been operating for the past 18 years. Asuman has been with TATMETAL for 11 years. Asuman is the mother of two children.

Ahmet was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1976. He received BSc degree in Management from the Marmara University, Istanbul in 1998 and MSc degree in International Business from the Aston University in Birmingham, UK in 2000. After completing his military service in 2000, he started working in the family company SAMI SOYBAS STEEL as Vice President. Ahmet is married and has two sons. He is General Secretary of YISAD (Turkish Flat Steel products import, export & industry Association) and member of Gebze Chamber of Commerce Council.

Mehmet Çakmur graduated from METU, Department of Industrial Engineering and started his business life in 1990. Until 2002, he worked in various positions in the trade of iron and steel. He worked as a representative of the Russian company MMK since 2002 and continued in this role until 2011. He began work at MMK Metallurgy plant in Turkey in MMK Group, which has been a long-term supplier of steel rolled products to Turkey, as Export and Sales director in 2011. He left his position in 2017 and established M Steel Ltd. set up for agency services and trading on iron and steel. In 2017, he was also at the forefront of the establishment of the Steel Foreign Trade Association and is currently in charge of the Association's Board of Directors.

Murat was born in Bursa. He has graduated from Istanbul Technical University, with double major degree (Industrial Engineering & Mechanical Engineering). Then he took his masters degree in Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. He started his professional career in Arcelik AS where he spent 8 years working in the purchasing and international sales department in Arcelik. He continued his career as a Sales & Marketing Manager in Erdemir (Oyak Maden Metalurji). Later he worked as a Sales & Marketing Head in Tosyalı Toyo for almost 2 years. Today he is responsible for Flat Product Sales in the Automotive and Manufacturing division in Çolakoğlu Metalurgy Company.

Enis is the purchasing manager responsible for Raw Material – Metals (steel, copper, aluminum) comprising all purchases for Arçelik locations world-wide. Enis worked for 14 years in Arçelik and the white goods sector. His managerial experience includes 4 different categories in purchasing, ranging from processed products to components. Before joining Arçelik, he spent 3 years in sales at Maersk in the logistics sector. He earned a bachelor of science in Industrial Engineering in Turkey and a master of science degree in Business Management in Germany.

Banu was born in Izmit, Turkey, in 1979. She graduated from Marmara University in Environmental Engineering. In 2002 Banu started at Tezcan Galvaniz AS and worked there around 2 years as foreign trade operation specialist. Then moved to Celik Halat ve Tel San. AS. (Steel Wire and Wire Rope Producer, Exporter in Izmit) as export specialist. Banu worked there for 10years and left the Company as Sales and Marketing Manager. Since the beginning of 2018; she joined the Galva Metal AS family.  She is working as Process Improvement and Purchasing Manager. She is married and has one daughter.

Ali is a senior executive leader in steel industry with 20 years progressive experience. He started his professional career in Borusan Mannesmann pipe company in early 2000, just after graduating from Bosphorus University / Industrial Engineering department. He has a diverse experience set in steel business including six sigma project management, sales and procurement. After Ali held commercial leadership roles in Borusan Mannesmann focusing on standard pipes & automotive tubes; as of he has worked as Executive Vice President responsible for purchasing and procurement. He is also member of the executive committee. Borusan Mannesmann is one of the foremost manufacturers of the European steel tube and pipe industry operates with five plants, three in Turkey, one in Italy and one in USA, with a total capacity of 1.4 million ton/year.

Mehmet, born 1962 in Karaman, earned his degree in Geological Engineering (Department of Mining) at the university of Hacettepe in 1987. Mehmet received his masters degree in the department of Business Administration in Marmara University. In 1987, Mehmet started working as “Assistant Reporter” in Istanbul Mineral and Metals Exporters’ Associations (İMMİB), he continued working in different administrative positions in the association for many years. Between 2009 and 2011, ZEREN held the Secretary General position in İMMİB and since 2011 he’s been working at Turkish Steel Pipe Manufacturers Association as Secretary General.

Roger has 25 years experience in the ferrous sector. He has specialised in steel end use markets and is skilled at using and interpreting trade data as part of market studies. He is a vetted Expert on steel on the UK Register of Expert Witnesses. He has extensive knowledge of the world's steel producers, EAF and integrated routes, and their raw materials requirements, downstream assets and markets. He has performed due diligence on many international steel firms, and ferrous scrap re-processors. Recent work has included flat products, automotive steels including AHSS and UHSS, plate markets, cold rolled, galvanised and pre-painted steels. He has also performed work on long products, electrical steels and tinplate. Since 1993, he has been a close observer of the steel sector in China and its impact on the world.