Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ (born 1965)TUSIAD Elects New Chairperson, Mrs. Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag
is a Turkish businesswoman and chairwoman of the

Doğan Holding Doğan Şirketler Grubu Holding A.Ş. 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 ...

industrial conglomerate.

Early life and education

She is the daughter of the Turkish

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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 el ...

, 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 TÜSİAD, the Turkish Industry and Business Association (), is Turkey's top business organization. Founded in 1971, TÜSİAD is a voluntary, independent, non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting public welfare through private enterpris ...

(TÜSİAD), the top association of businesspeople in

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. Doğan finished high school at Lycée Français Saint Michel in

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. She was educated in sociology at the

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...

earning a bachelor's degree. She went later to the United Kingdom to study

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. 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

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in establishing

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. Prior to that, she served in the ''

Milliyet ''Milliyet'' ( Turkish for "''nationality''") is a 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 May 1950 ...

'' 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

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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 (), 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

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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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Biography
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