Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ (born 1965)
[TUSIAD Elects New Chairperson, Mrs. Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag]
is a Turkish businesswoman and chairwoman of the
Doğan Holding
Doğan Holding is amongst the biggest conglomerates in Turkey operating in the energy, media, industry, trade, insurance and tourism industries. Founded by Aydın Doğan who still is a major shareholder, the company is led by his daughter Begümh ...
industrial conglomerate.
Early life and education
She is the daughter of the Turkish
media proprietor
A media proprietor, media mogul or media tycoon refers to a entrepreneur who controls, through personal ownership or via a dominant position in any media-related company or enterprise, media consumed by many individuals. Those with significant co ...
Aydın Doğan
Aydın Doğan (born 15 April 1936) is a Turkish business magnate and investor. He is the founder of Doğan Holding, one of Turkey's largest conglomerates.
Biography
Born in 1936 as a member of a well-known family in Kelkit. Doğan went to e ...
, who was chairman of Dogan Holding before she took over 1 January 2010.
Between 2007 and 2010, she served as the first female chairperson of the
Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association
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*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
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(TÜSİAD), the top association of businesspeople in
Turkey
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.
Doğan finished high school at
Lycée Français Saint Michel in
Istanbul
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. She was educated in sociology at the
Boğaziçi University
Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus, Bosphorus strait. It has six facult ...
earning a bachelor's degree. She went later to the United Kingdom to study
business administration
Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...
. She is married to businessman
Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ.
Career
Since 1996, she has been in the broadcast media business and has initiated a joint venture with
AOL Time Warner
Warner Media, LLC ( traded as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States.
It was originally established in 1972 by ...
in establishing
CNN Türk
CNN Türk is a Turkish pay television news channel, launched on 11 October 1999 as the localised variant of American channel CNN. It broadcasts exclusively for Turkey and it is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and Demirören Group. Its headquarte ...
. Prior to that, she served in the ''
Milliyet
''Milliyet'' ( Turkish for "''nationality''") is a Turkish daily newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey.
History and profile
''Milliyet'' came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 ...
'' Group, where she was responsible for finance, and worked in the establishment of
Alternatif Bank, where she later became a board member. She established and managed the
mail order
Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. The buyer places an order for the desired products with the merchant through some remote methods such as:
* Sending an order form in the mail
* Placing a telephone call
* Placing a ...
company in MILPA CO in a joint venture with the German
Quelle Company.
She is a board member of the
Education Volunteers Foundation of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Eğitim Gönüllüleri Vakfı, TEGV), Turkish-American Businessmen's Association, TABA; Turkish Women Entrepreneurs Association, KAGİDER and the
Third Sector Foundation of Turkey, TÜSEV. Yalçındag is also the founding Director of the Women's Initiative for Turkey in the
European Union
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and the founding board member of the Aydin Dogan Foundation.
Doğan is a member of the Board of Directors of The American Turkish Society. She was a member of the executive committee and head of the Social Affairs Committee of TÜSİAD before becoming the president.
Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ candidate for TÜSİAD presidency – Turkish Daily News Jan 17, 2007
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References
External links
Biography
* https://web.archive.org/web/20080202141547/http://arzuhanyalcindaging.azbuz.com/readArticle.jsp?objectID=5000000001671374
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1965 births
Living people
Turkish women in business
Turkish businesspeople
Turkish chief executives
Boğaziçi University alumni
Doğan family