• Murat Gürakan is a cybersecurity technology leader with experience in the public sector and multinational companies in the fields of cybersecurity architecture, risk management and security governance. Through the consultancy firm he founded, he has managed security and maturity assessment projects for organisations operating on a global scale, covering security architecture, supplier ecosystems and hundreds of applications. Previously, he managed cybersecurity units within the defence industry and led teams on critical projects. His work also encompasses emerging fields such as AI security and trustworthy AI governance, and he translates his technical expertise into strategic decision-making processes at senior management level.

Rethinking Elitism

The semantic shift that the concepts of “elite” and “elitism” have undergone in public discourse reflects not only political polemics,