Ö. Özgür Tort

Ö. Özgür Tort joined the Business Development Department of Migros in 1996 and went on to lead, in chronological order, Project Management, International Investments Coordination and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). In 2002 he was posted as Chief Operations Officer of Ramstore retail operations in Russia where he stayed for the next four years before returning to Migros, Turkey as Chief Human Resources Officer in 2006.

In 2008 Ö. Özgür Tort was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Migros and has served in this role ever since. In addition, since 2013 Ö. Özgür Tort has been a board member of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), a global organization formed by the world’s leading retailers and manufacturers. In 2019 he was appointed Co-Chair (retail) of the CGF. On the national level, Ö. Özgür Tort is the Vice Co-Chair of Food Retailers Association (GPD) and board member of the Turkish Federation of Shopping Centers and Retailers (TAMPF). In 2020, Tort became a board member of both GS1 Global and GS1 Turkey. Tort graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a BSc in Industrial Engineering and in addition holds an MS degree in Engineering Management from Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis in the same academic field at Marmara University.