Selcuk Erdonmez

Selçuk Erdönmez is a German lawyer with more than 15 years of senior leadership in export-control and war-weapons compliance for leading submarine and surface-vessel manufacturers. Since July 2025, he has served as ITAR Compliance Lead for TKMS GmbH. He previously served as Head of Export and War-Weapons Control at thyssenkrupp Marine Systems GmbH, directing multi-site teams, harmonising EU dual-use, national war weapons and U.S. EAR/ITAR policies, and managing projects across several subsidiaries. Earlier roles at Thales Deutschland involved contract negotiation, project management, and sales operations leadership for naval defence programmes with international customers. Outside work, he is a 17-time marathon finisher and a three-time finisher of the Marathon des Sables ultra-endurance race in the Sahara Desert, Morocco.