Ömer Faruk Ergün

Ministry of Trade

Ömer Faruk Ergün has served at the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Türkiye since 2012 and currently works as a Trade Expert in the Department of Electronic Commerce. His work focuses on electronic commerce law, the regulation of digital platforms, artificial intelligence, data governance and the digital economy. He has played an active role in the development and implementation of numerous public projects concerning ETBİS (Electronic Commerce Information System), the E-Commerce Information Platform and electronic commerce legislation, and has represented Türkiye in national and international working groups. He is pursuing his doctoral dissertation in the Information and Technology Law PhD Programme at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, examining the transformation of legal decision-making, intermediation and liability in AI-supported digital commerce. His areas of interest include artificial intelligence law, electronic commerce law, the regulation of digital platforms, data analytics and the legal dimensions of next-generation digital technologies.