Melsa Ararat

Melsa Ararat is 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. Provided by Wikipedia