{"id":76001,"date":"2025-09-17T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/?page_id=76001"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:12:23","slug":"arzu-aslan-kesimer-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/arzu-aslan-kesimer-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Arzu Aslan Kesimer Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-gb76001-69da12417f764\"  class=\"panel-layout wp-block-siteorigin-panels-layout-block\" ><div id=\"pg-gb76001-69da12417f764-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb76001-69da12417f764-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb76001-69da12417f764-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-75975 \" src=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624-807x1024.jpg 807w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624-768x974.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624-1211x1536.jpg 1211w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624-1615x2048.jpg 1615w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624-720x913.jpg 720w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624-520x659.jpg 520w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624-320x406.jpg 320w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/arzu-azlin-kesimer-e1758136263624.jpg 1790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Arzu Aslan Kesimer<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Current\/ previous positions:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Board Director, Y\u0131ld\u0131z Ventures, Armada Foods &amp; Yata\u015f Group; Vice President, Women on Board Turkey <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"text-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Arzu Aslan Kesimer is a seasoned business leader and board director with over 25 years of executive and non-executive experience across international and leading Turkish companies. She currently serves as an IFC Nominee Director, representing the International Finance Corporation on the board of Khaadi Corporation in Pakistan, where she contributes to advancing strategy and leveraging her retail expertise in one of Asia\u2019s leading fashion and lifestyle groups. She holds multiple independent board positions in global and regional companies such as Armada Foods, Yata\u015f Group, Akkim Chemicals, and previously S\u00f6kta\u015f Tekstil and Tat G\u0131da. As the Vice President of Women on Board Association Turkey, she actively promotes female leadership and diversity in corporate governance, mentoring and inspiring the next generation of women leaders. Earlier in her career, she spent nearly two decades in senior executive roles within the Ko\u00e7 Group, including as CEO of Tat G\u0131da and Deputy General Manager at Ko\u00e7ta\u015f, where she led transformation, growth, and international expansion projects.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arzu Aslan Kesimer Current\/ previous positions:\u00a0Board Director, Y\u0131ld\u0131z Ventures, Armada Foods &amp; Yata\u015f Group; Vice President, Women on Board Turkey &nbsp; &nbsp; BIOGRAPHY Arzu Aslan Kesimer is a seasoned business leader and board director&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76298,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76001\/revisions\/76298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}