Melsa Ararat
Turkish academic
Melsa Ararat is a Turkish activist scholar and professor of corporate governance. She is the founder and former director of Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (CGFT) at Sabancı University and the founding director of CDP Turkey. She is the founder and Chair of 30% Club Turkey campaign and the founding director of Business Against Domestic Violence Project (BADV).
Ararat was elected to the board of International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) in 2015 for a 6-year term, and to the board of United Nations Global Compact Turkey Network in 2019 for a 3-year term. She has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics in University of Groningen since 2015.
Her academic work focuses on corporate governance in emerging markets, gender diversity in corporate boards, business ethics and strategic management.
Education
Ararat holds a BSc degree in chemical engineering, a MSc degree in thermodynamics and Phd in management and strategy.
Career and research
Following an international career in board positions and senior management in Turkey, the Benelux, Singapore and Japan within Philips Group, Ararat joined academia in 2002 as a professor of Practice and the Founding Director of Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (CGFT) at Sabancı University. She supported Capital Markets Board of Turkey in developing its Corporate Governance Principles which was published in 2003. Ararat worked as an advisor to S&P’s Governance Services between 2004 and 2008.
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