Gokhan TaymazManaging Director / Corporate Advisor
areas of expertise
- Global Business Environment Analysis
- Strategic Planning and Execution
- Government Relations
- Public Policy Support
- Corporate Resiliency
- Market Penetration
- Strategic Communications
- Knowledge Management
education
- Executive Master of Business Administration, University of Oxford
- MA, Government Relations and Political Communication, Laureate Bilgi University
- Senior Level Executive Programs, NATO School Oberammergau, Germany
- Knowledge Management
- Political Analysis
- Strategic Planning
- Crisis Management
- Strategic Communications and Micro Targeting
- BS, Aerospace Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
Gokhan Taymaz is a globally recognized executive advisor with over 25 years of international experience at the nexus of investments, private sector growth, and geopolitics. He is renowned for guiding Fortune 500 companies, institutional investors, and high-growth enterprises through complex regulatory environments and volatile geopolitical landscapes.
Known for his ability to bridge public-private interests, Gokhan has a proven track record of shaping market-entry strategies, re-aligning investment portfolios, and facilitating high-stakes negotiations in sectors ranging from energy and infrastructure to technology and industrial manufacturing.
A trusted strategic advisor to chairpersons, boards, and investment committees, Gokhan has led transformative initiatives that mobilize capital, drive cross-border expansion, and unlock long-term value across diverse markets. His career spans key advisory roles in multinational corporations and global institutions, where he has consistently aligned commercial strategies with emerging political and economic realities.
Latest insights & analysis on Gökhan's area of expertise
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France’s offshore wind bet races its own election
France will open on Friday the tender the wind industry has been awaiting since 2024: ten gigawatts of offshore capacity, the largest single offshore procurement ever launched in the country and one of the largest in Europe’s history. Behind the headline number lies a triple wager.
The government is betting that an industry battered globally by cost inflation and political hostility can deliver at scale, that floating turbine technology is ready to leave its experimental phase, and, most precariously, that the contracts can be locked in before an April presidential election in which the leading party wants the whole program stopped.
June 12, 2026 -
Europe’s clean energy push collides with China de-risking
Europe has spent two decades treating solar power as the answer to its energy insecurities. Last month Brussels concluded that part of the solar fleet might itself be an insecurity, and acted on it. The EU’s new ban on public funding for Chinese-made inverters, the devices that convert panel output into grid-ready electricity, is on paper a procurement restriction.
In practice it is the moment the bloc formally extended its China de-risking doctrine into the heart of its power system, and the collateral effects on its climate timetable will be substantial. The measure touches at least 14 gigawatts of new solar capacity, more than a fifth of what the EU installs in a typical year.
June 11, 2026 -
EU softens carbon pricing before voters feel the cost
In the early hours of Thursday, after talks that stretched deep into the night, EU member states and the European Parliament agreed to defang the bloc’s most politically explosive climate instrument before it has charged a single euro. The deal strengthens the price-control machinery of ETS2, the new emissions trading system that from 2028 will put a carbon cost on the fuels Europeans use to heat their homes and drive their cars.
The headline change sounds technical: if permit prices climb above 45 euros per tonne of CO2, 40 million additional allowances will flow into the market from a stability reserve, double the previously planned 20 million, with the release available twice a year for a potential annual injection of 80 million permits.
June 11, 2026