
Ali Koç
Turkish businessman
Ali Yıldırım Koç (born 2 April 1967) is a Turkish businessman. He is a third-generation member of Turkey's wealthiest Koç family and the youngest son of Rahmi Koç.2
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Born Apr 2, 1967.1
About
From June 2018 to September 2025, he was the 37th president of Fenerbahçe Sports Club.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedHarrow School3
- Date not recordedHarvard Business School3
- Date not recordedRice University3
After finishing high school at Harrow School (1980–85), London, he received a BA degree in managerial studies from Rice University (1985–89), Houston, Texas, followed by an MBA degree from Harvard Business School (1995–97).
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Career
Occupation: businessperson.8
- Since 2025Chair, Otokar7
- 2018 to 2025Chair, Fenerbahçe Men's Basketball5
- 2018 to 2025Chair, Fenerbahçe Istanbul6
- Date not recordedList of Fenerbahçe S.K. presidents4
In 1990-1991, he attended the management trainee program of American Express Bank.
From 1992 to 1994, he was an analyst at Morgan Stanley.
In 1997, he joined Koç Holding, and held various senior positions within the company. From 2006 to 2010, he was the president of corporate communication and information of the family group.
He was a board member of Süper Lig football club Fenerbahçe. He had a fourth two-year term as vice-president since Aziz Yıldırım came to power. Koç is a Rotarian and a member of the Istanbul Open Sea Yacht Club and New York Yacht Club. Koç is on the board of directors of Endeavor Turkey, an international non-profit development organization that seeks to find and support high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets.
He was elected the 37th Fenerbahçe president in June 2018, beating former president and candidate Aziz Yıldırım with 77.6% of the votes for a three year long term. In June 2022, he was elected as the president of the Turkish Union of Clubs. He was awarded as Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), for services to trade and investment between the UK and Turkey. Koç is a member of the Global Advisory Council of Bank of America, the Global Board of Advisors at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Board of Trustees at Chatham House. At the Fenerbahçe Sports Club Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting held on 21 September 2025, where 24,732 votes were cast, of which 24,393 were deemed valid he lost the election to Sadettin Saran, when Saran became the 38th president of Fenerbahçe with 12,325 votes, while Ali Koç received 12,068 votes.
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Personal life
Koç married Nevbahar Demirağ in 2005, and they have two children.
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Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataAli Koç on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaAli Koç on Wikipedia
- 3WikidataAli Koç: education, on Wikidata
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- 8WikidataAli Koç: occupation, on Wikidata
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- 11WikidataAli Koç: residence, on Wikidata
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- 13WikidataAli Koç: Instagram, on Wikidata
- 14WikidataInstagram, as reported
- 15WikidataOtokar, Chair
- 16Wikimedia CommonsAli Koç photo by Zafer, CC BY-SA 4.0