Özlem Cekic

Özlem Sara Cekic (born 7 May 1976) is a Danish-Kurdish former politician and member of parliament for the Socialist People's Party (SF), who is now general-secretary of the organisation Brobyggerne (the Bridge-builders) - Center for Dialog Coffee. She is also a well renowned author, speaker, advisor and active in the public debate, especially on humanitarian issues.

A nurse by education, Cekic was first elected to the central committee of the Socialist People's Party in 2004. In the 2007 elections, she became a member of the Danish parliament. She was her party's spokesperson for health related issues. She left the party in 2016 due to disagreements regarding refugee policies and is not a member of any party today.

In 2018 she was the second Dane ever to be invited to give a TED talk in New York on her invention - Dialogue Coffee - a new way of meeting and communicating among people, including those who might disagree.