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Gamze Cizreli<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Current\/ previous positions:<\/strong> Founder & Chair, BigChefs <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Gamze Cizreli is the Founder and Chairperson of BigChefs, an all-day casual dining restaurant chain. Founded in Ankara in 2007, BigChefs now operates in136 locations in 11 countries. As a woman-led business, the brand is known for its creative use of local farming, its support for women producers, and its strong focus on sustainability. Besides her core business, she has been a part-time lecturer on \u201cEntrepreneurship\u201d at Middle East Technical University and was one of the jury members of \u201cDragon\u2019s Den\u201d broadcasted on Bloomberg TV and \u201cWinning Restaurant\u201d on FOX TV. In 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2017, she was named \u201cWoman Entrepreneur of Turkey\u201d by Economist magazine. Most recently, she was selected to the Forbes list of \u201c50 Women Over 50\u201d in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
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Gamze Cizreli Current\/ previous positions: Founder & Chair, BigChefs     BIOGRAPHY Gamze Cizreli is the Founder and Chairperson of BigChefs, an all-day casual dining restaurant chain. Founded in Ankara in 2007, BigChefs now...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76004","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76006,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76004\/revisions\/76006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}