Ece Güner Toprak

Ece Güner Toprak was born in Ankara and grew up in Strasbourg, France. She graduated with the highest honors from Paris Law School (Assas, Pantheon-Sorbonne) and has been practicing law in Turkey since 1994. Ece Güner Toprak formed her own firm in 1996, Güner Law Office, which rapidly became one of the leading business law firms in Turkey, working predominantly on cross-border investment transactions and projects. Ece Güner Toprak has also led some of Turkey’s largest court cases and has been involved as counsel in several large arbitrations. She was ranked by Thomson-Reuters as one of the top 5 lawyers in terms of total foreign investment brought to Turkey.  Separately from her “business lawyer” hat, Ece Güner Toprak especially for the past 4-5 years, has been very involved in civil society and in trying to improve the rule of law situation in Turkey. In particular, she has been very vocal on the new Constitution through writings, public appearances and 2 books. Her first book “Is the solution the presidential system?” addresses the short-comings of the new constitution, her second book “The solution for my Country” presents her own concrete recommendations for an improved constitution, a judiciary reform, a stronger parliament, stronger fundamental freedoms, a plan of action to boost investments to Turkey and her recommendations for a renewed European agenda. She is a strong advocate of the theory that good rule of law brings better economic development as it allows long terms investments that benefit the whole population and controls good corporate governance of governments, which again benefits the development of the whole population. She wishes to bring her knowledge of these areas to benefit the larger numbers.