Arzuhan Yalçındağ

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Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındag (born 1965^[1]) is the current head of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD), the top association of businesspeople in Turkey. She was elected on January 25, 2007.^[1] She is a Doğan Holding member, and acting chairperson of Doğan TV (Kanal D).

Since 1996 she has been in the broadcast media business and has initiated the joint venture with AOL Time Warner in establishing CNN Türk. Prior to that she served in the Milliyet 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 Mail Order 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: Türkiye Eğitim Gönüllüleri Vakfı, TEGV), one of the most effective NGOs in the country. Yalçındag is the founding Director of the Women’s Initiative for Turkey in the European Union and is the founding Board member of the Aydin Dogan Trust Foundation, and a founding member of Turkish Women Entrepreneurs Association.

She was a member of the executive committee and head of the Social Affairs Committee of TÜSİAD before becoming the president.^[2]