Mehmet Ural is a Chairman of TÜSES (Turkish Social Economic Political Research Foundation), a social democrat think tank and Board member in various other non-profit organizations with similar objectives.
Mr. Ural was a lecturer at the Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics and Istanbul University School of Advertising and Market Research. Mr. Ural was a founder partner and chairman of Yorum Publicis, an integrated communication group founded in 1981.Mehmet Ural was Board Member to the Turkish Advertising Association and presently member of Advising Board and now same to the Turkish Advertising Foundation to which he formerly was Chairman for many years. Mr. Ural had been acting as consultant and campaign manager to the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP).
Mehmet Ural is a board member of IAPC and a past president of EAPC.