Current/ previous positions: Founder and Chairman, ARGE Consulting

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 which is the first Turkish signatory of the UN Global Compact and has been recognized at the European Parliament as one of the best three companies “Shaping the Future” with its commitment to corporate social responsibility. He has also worked as a chief strategy advisor at the Koç Holding and 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 served as the founding Chairman of Rothschild & Co. Türkiye and as the Chairman of Erdemir, the largest Turkish steel company. As a renowned governance expert, he served as the Chairman of the Governance Committee of the Business at OECD and as a member of the IFC’s Corporate Governance Advisory Board and as the Chairman of the Trustees of Argüden Governance Academy.