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Dr. Yılmaz Argüden
Business at OECD
Chair of Governance and Regulatory Policy
Biography
Dr. Yılmaz Argüden is a strategist, governance expert, advisor, and board member of major public and private institutions, and NGOs. He is the Founder and Chairman of ARGE Consulting, a globally recognized management consulting firm based in Istanbul.
He has held senior positions at the RAND Corporation and the World Bank before returning to Türkiye to lead the Privation Program and served as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister. Later he worked as the chief strategy advisor at the Koç Holding, the founding Chairman of Rothschild & Co. Türkiye, and as the Chairman of Erdemir, the largest Turkish steel company. He also served as an independent board member for more than 70 companies in different jurisdictions.
He is an author of numerous books and a columnist focusing on strategy, sustainability, and governance issues. He has served as an adjunct Professor of Strategy at the Bogazici University, Koç University, and the Military Academy.
As a renowned governance expert, he served as the Chairman of the Governance Committee of the Business at OECD, a member of the IFC’s Corporate Governance Advisory Board, and the Chairman of the Trustees of Argüden Governance Academy.
As a social entrepreneur he has founded and led numerous NGOs and initiated the National Quality Movement. As the elected Global Chair, he represented the National Networks on the Board of the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest sustainability platform.
He is an Eisenhower, Fulbright, NATO, and TUBITAK fellow. He was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and is a recipient of the Distinguished Citizenship Award and the Distinguished Industry Leadership Award for industrial engineering.
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