 He has also been listed in Top 10 Most Influential Voices in the Power Generation Today by POWER-GEN Europe in 2013.He is very active in founding NGOs and also in organizing conferences.He is the founder and president of the Energy and Climate Change Foundation (ENIVA) and founding executive committee of the Sustainable Production and Consumption Association (SUT-D), the first NGOs to be working in energy sustainability and climate change in Turkey.