Meet TurkishWINner: Didem Kalaycıoğlu Birol

What do you do for a living? Tell us more about you.

I’m an experienced senior legal counsel expertised especially on Data Privacy, Competition Law, Telecommunications Law and Information Technologies.

What's the best piece advice you've received?

Take action! Move on!

Dark chocolate or milk chocolate

Milk chocolate.

One think you wish you have known earlier in your career

What got you here won't get you there.

If you could have any three people (dead or alive) over for dinner – who would they be?

Freddy Mercury, John Lennon and Atatürk.

Name a book you read that positively shaped you.

Küçük Prens-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

You believe in the sisterhood at work because…

Women has a great insight and collaboration skills. With sisterhood women can built up each other and make world a better place.

Who are your role models?

My grandfather.

If you had one superpower, what would it be?

Stop the time, get back and forward.

Do you have any pets?

Yes, I have a cat named Süt J.

Any tatoos?

I have a tatoo of “ACD” letters on my left arm, which are my, my son's and my husband's initials.

What’s in your handbag right now?

Purse, sunglasses, keys, parfume.

Last book you read or are reading now

Zamanı Durdurmanın Yolları- Matt Haig.

If you weren’t in your industry – what would you be doing?

Performing arts.