Özdil Nami

Özdil Nami (born 23 May 1967) is a British-born Turkish Cypriot politician. He has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Northern Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot Special Representative in the negotiations to solve the Cyprus dispute. He served as the Minister of Economy and Energy of Northern Cyprus between 2018 and 2019.

Nami was born in London on 23 May 1967. He studied business in the Boğaziçi University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, in Istanbul, Turkey, graduating in 1988, and went on to complete a master's degree in finance in the University of California, Berkeley in 1991.

After his return to Cyprus, he started to work in the company of his family, Erdil & Sons Ltd as a director. Between 1993 and 1997, he delivered business lectures in the Eastern Mediterranean University, Near East University and the European University of Lefke. He was appointed in 1997 as an adviser to the President Rauf Denktaş on political analysis and took part in the negotiations to solve the Cyprus dispute until 2000. He then served as a Councillor at the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce in 2000 and 2001 and as the Chairperson of Cyprus Turkish Businessmen Association between 2001 and 2003. Nami had already taken over this position on 4 May.

On 2 February 2018, he assumed the role of the Minister of Economy and Energy in the Erhürman cabinet.