Berna Öztınaz

Berna Öztınaz  graduated from Istanbul University’s Faculty of Business and then completed Sabancı University’s Executive MBA programme. After a brief spell working for the tourism sector, she started her HR career at KORDSA A.Ş and eventually assigned to various projects in Egypt, Germany, Argentina, and Iran.

Then she had various senior HR and Strategic business support roles in the energy sector before taking on the role of CHRO at DeFacto, a large retail company operating in about a hundred countries.

Berna Öztınaz is currently the CHRO at a London-based company of Genel Energy Plc, one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies. With a vast experience in different sectors, she focuses on change management, talent management beyond borders, mergers, acquisitions, privatizations, corporate culture, industrial relations management, main brand management, corporate communications, and business excellence.

With her volunteer work, she served as President for PERYÖN (the biggest non-profit organisation in Human Resources in Turkey) for two terms. Berna has been a Board member of the EAPM since 2020, as well as on the WFPMA Board representing the EAPM since 2022 as the first female delegate from Europe.

Berna recognises that EAPM stands as a respectable source for information and where best practises are openly shared; it is important to strengthen this knowledge capital structure for a sustainable future for HR and the people profession.