Born in 1965 in İstanbul, Deniz Dikmen completed elementary and high school education at Maria-Sibylla-Merian Gymnasium in Germany. Dikmen, who graduated from İstanbul University German Philology faculty speaks German ,English, French, Latin and Russian languages.
Her professional life started when she started working as a Product Manager at Karstadt AG which is one of Turkey’s first overseas Sourcing Offices founded in 1989 in İstanbul. She has also taken part in goods procurement of important German textile brands and in teams that pioneered in laying the foundations of Turkey’s textile export to Germany.
Deniz Dikmen has played the leading role in exporting to Retailers, mail order companies and online sales channels of many countries in Europe such as Germany, England, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and France. In addition to that, she has successfully worked from 2003-2006 as Executive Manager Europe with production countries in the textile industry such as Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Poland and Estonia.
From 2006 - 2020, she worked as Vice President and Global Account Manager in the field of sales and supply chain management at Hong Kong based Li&Fung Corp., which is the world’s largest global textile agency and bridged the relationship between the European customers and the vendors from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Turkey and Italy .
Dikmen attended international training programs in social responsibility standards with ethical contents and on the topic of sustainable textile such as BSCI. She has applied the training program on her employees for strengthening and improving the organization. Deniz Dikmen, who is the author of two short story books published in German language by the DTV publishing house in Germany, was also given several literature awards. Continuing her second university education at the İstanbul University World Heritage Management, Dikmen is also working as the Vice Chairperson of the Sevda Aydın Foundation – S.A.F Vakfı.
Deniz Dikmen is married and has a child.
