30% Club Turkey Targets
The founding members of the 30% Club Turkey represent most of Turkey’s powerful business groups that collectively dominate the stock market
Our Board has the following targets:
- 30% representation of women in the boards of BIST Main Market and Star Markets companies.
- 30% representation of women in senior management positions (reporting directly to the CEO).
- Zero-all male boards in BIST 100 companies.
To support the achievement of a minimum of 30% Female Representation at all senior decision-making levels across Turkey, including Boards and C-Suite.
Activate
Activate senior leaders
Engage chairs and CEOs to drive change and support organisations in their diversity & inclusion endeavours, with a specific focus on gender
Influence
Influence those with power to drive change
Influence at a national level on diversity-related topics and working complementary to other national initiatives including Balance for Better Business, the State Boards Diversity Initiative
Enable
Enabling future women leaders
Support the development of talent pipeline through mentoring, executive education scholarships, and board-ready initiatives
Achieving gender equality in leadership positions requires transformation at all levels and all spheres, and it can’t be separated from eliminating all forms of discrimination and prejudice. Men and women are and should be leaders. Men and women can be equally effective leaders provided that their role does not conflict with their self-identity. Solidarity between men and women based on sharing a higher-order identity and positioning men and women as agents of change towards a common cause is the essence of this transformation. The social purpose of the campaign is not to put an individual woman in positions of power and influence, but to mobilize collective action for a social change.
Chapter progress
How female representation at the board level has progressed by percentage (%) across the listed companies on BIST since 30% Club was launched in Turkey in 2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
13.9%
15.2%
15.9%
17%
16.7%
17.5%
17.9%
18.7%
Board of Directors
As of 2022, governing body of 30% Club Turkey is it is board of directors who are appointed from our member companies. Board of Directors has started to work with an ambition to improve female representation at boardrooms in BIST 400 and launched a campaign to decrease the number of 'all-male board' firms
Melsa Ararat
Advisory Board Member, SU CGFT
Board Chair
Şule Kılıç
Head of Energy Eurasia, EBRD
Board Member
Şerif Kaynar
The Honorary President, Korn Ferry
Board Member
Haluk Kayabaşı
CEO, Haluk Kayabaşı
Board Member
Yeşim Güra
Non Executive Director and Chair of Audit Committee, QNB Türkiye
Board Member
İhsan Erbil Bayçöl
CEO, Enerjisa Üretim
Board Member
Elif Ateş Özpak
Board Director, Gama Enerji
Board Member
Ebru Taşcıoğlu
CSCO, Enerjisa Enerji
Board Member
Özgür Tokgöz Altun
CFO, Boyner Group
Board Member
Nazan Somer Özelgin
Non Executive Director, TAV Airports
Board Member
Füsun Akkal Bozok
Board Director, Ford Otomotiv
Board Member
Ebru Köksal
Board Director, J Stern & Co. Ltd
Board Member
Ebru Dildar Edin
Non Executive Director
Board Member
Cüneyt Yavuz
CEO, Mavi
Board Member
Bilgün Gürkan
Country Manager, Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait, Turkey Representative Office
Alternate Board Member
Oya Sener
Head of Retail, Fiba Retail Group
Alternate Board Member
Our Work
On March 22, 2017 Borsa Istanbul (BIST) hosted the launch of the 30% Club’s Turkey Chapter as a business led campaign, aimed at improving corporate boards’ gender diversity. The founding members of the 30% Club Turkey represent most of Turkey’s powerful business groups that collectively dominate the stock market. The 30% Club in Turkey is a spin off from the Independent Women Directors Project of Sabancı University Corporate Governance Forum. The Forum, which maintains a database of female talent and tracks improvement in BIST boards’ gender diversity, facilitates and coordinates the 30% Club Turkey campaign. It is not an organization, it is a campaign based on the cooperation of members. It is a non-profit and impartial campaign.
Committees are Communications, Membership, Audit, Investors and Women Directors Relations and AGM Activism Working Group. Each committee is composed of senior executives from our member companies.
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Communications Committee
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Membership Committee
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Audit Committee
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Women Directors Relations Committee (in formation)
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AGM Activism Working Group
Main Aim
The 30 percent Club Turkey membership is open to publicly listed companies and non-public companies with at least 100 employees. Members declare their adoption to the principles of diversity and inclusion.
Member companies’ names are publicly disclosed and they agree to be involved in the communication campaigns of the Club. All members are invited to events, but participation is completely optional. It is not required to be involved in its activities unless members want to.
The members are not required to have a minimum representation of women on boards. Underrepresentation of women in decision-making is a global phenomenon. Therefore, gender balance improvement is a future-oriented desire.
Membership does not require any binding commitment; however, Club members agree to contribute to the implementation of activities through the means determined by the Board of Directors.
Contact
To become a member, you should fill a membership form. Therefore, please send an e-mail to 30percentclubturkey@sabanciuniv.edu to request the form.
Project: Decreasing the number of all male board firms in Turkey
30 Percent Club Turkey has sent an invitation letter to the all male board firms listed in BIST. In the following, it has collaborated with several stakeholders to send similar invitation letters to the Chair and CEOs of their member companies which have no women on their boards. It is an ongoing project.