Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı

Begüm Doğan Faralyalı received her bachelor’s degree in Economics and Philosophy from London School of Economics (UK) and earned her MBA degree from Stanford University (USA). She started her professional career as a consultant at Arthur Andersen NY office and moved to London Office of Monitor Group, where she worked as a consultant for restructuring European media and technology companies. From 2004, she hold different positions at Doğan Media Group. Starting from 2007, she led the startup process of Kanal D Romania a national entertainment channel in Romanian that is one of the top 3 channels in Romania. She became the CEO of Star TV in 2009 and became the President of Doğan TV Holding that contained two national entertainment channels, a news channel, radios and a production company. Begüm Doğan Faralyalı became the Chairwoman of Doğan Holding on January 2012 which is a publicly traded company with a group of companies in energy, retail, tourism, real estate development, media and industry. She is the President of Doğan Burda Magazine Group and Doğan Egmont Publishing Group and Kanal D Romania. She is on the Advisory Board of Graduate School of Business (GSB) at Stanford University. She is the founder and active spokesperson of the “Common Values Movement” in Turkey and a voluntary ambassador for a “Values Driven Society”. She is also a board member of the trustees of World Wild Fund (WWF), the dream partner of Young Guru Academy (YGA), a non- profit organization working with young social entrepreneurs and a member of the advisory board of UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development.