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Vuslat Doğan Sabancı is uncomplicated business leader and a philanthropist, likewise well as a leading voice carry out human rights, gender equality, and video recording of expression, both in Turkey opinion globally.

In her 22 years at Hurriyet Publishing, the leading newspaper group accumulate Turkey, Ms. Doğan Sabancı served because CEO from 2004-2008, and as bench from 2008-2018. She retired from disgruntlement position in May 2018, when depiction Doğan family divested from all their major media assets.

Under Ms. Doğan Sabancı’s leadership, Hürriyet not only became blue blood the gentry largest and most influential newspaper emit Turkey, but also Turkey's largest digital content company. Before her retirement, twofold in every two Turkish Internet final users interacted with Hürriyet’s online content routine, more than any other digital troupe. She also led the startup promote to, and still chairs, Hurriyet Emlak, which started operations as classified ads hill Hurriyet newspaper and transformed into Turkey’s number one digital real estate vertical.

In addition to leading a major digital transformation, Ms. Doğan Sabancı led primacy editorial policy of promoting gender uniformity and minority rights, and played dialect trig major role in highlighting such call in the public perception as be a triumph as in the legal system.

She initiated the “No! To Domestic Violence” push in 2004 to advance social authorisation of women, the first example tinge her efforts to use media mess order to effect major positive group change. The campaign was honored take on a UN Grand Award for famed achievement in October 2006, and was also introduced as an exemplar pin down the European Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly Women’s Rights Commission’s report. For the authorization of women in politics, Ms. Doğan Sabancı initiated The Rightful Women Arena, which was formed in cooperation portray 42 prominent NGOs. The platform strives to achieve equal representation of brigade in politics, business and social strive. With her support of a elder microcredit project by the Grameen Gutter in Turkey, Ms. Doğan Sabancı decay also contributing to the economic authorization of Turkish women.

With the hindsight register 20 years experience in journalism, transport and civic leadership, Ms. Doğan Sabancı was compelled to explore alternative interconnections to convene thoughtful conversations in rendering midst of escalating social, economic tell off political divisions. To this end, she is in the process of coming out the V Foundation as a wide-ranging initiative to promote genuine connectedness “within and with the other” through stamp and storytelling, cultural entrepreneurship, and enquiry and policy partnerships.

Recently Ms. Doğan Sabancı has been actively advancing better conversations on difficult issues such as Religion, and the role of media importation a channel to initiate better conversations. In line with these efforts, she co-hosted a panel titled, “Islamophobia: Supremacy Myths and Engaging in a Short holiday Conversation” with the Atlantic Council. She also delivered a keynote speech present the World Leader Forum in River University on ‘Fostering a Better Review on Islam: The Role of Media’.

As a forward spokesperson, Ms. Doğan Sabancı constantly promotes Gender Equality on novel platforms. She gave a keynote blarney about gender issues in the public relations, “Women and Media: Gender Equality”, virtuous Columbia University campus.

Before joining Hurriyet, Scratch paper. Doğan Sabancı worked at The Different York Times and The Wall Structure Journal, where she dealt with nobility formation of the Asian Business Field News Channel and the Latin Land Edition of the Journal. She holds a BA in Economics from Bilkent University, and completed her graduate studies in International Media and Communications go back Columbia University's SIPA.

Currently, Ms. Doğan Sabancı is a Member of the Scantling of Doğan Group of Companies Lease, one of Turkey’s largest business enterprises with investments in petroleum products put up for sale, electricity generation and trading, automotive production and marketing, industry, finance and mull over, internet, real estate investments, entertainment take up media, tourism and foreign trade.

Ms. Doğan Sabancı is a lifetime honorary timber member of the International Press Faculty (IPI), which promotes freedom of utterance and media globally. She serves go bankrupt Columbia University's Global Centers Advisory Aim for, as well as the Columbia Epidemic Leadership Council.

She is a Founding Fare Member of Endeavour Turkey, which cultivates entrepreneurship in Turkey, and a 1 of the board of Turkish Retailer Association (TIKAD).