Boards of Association
Boards of Directors
Selçuk Argun – Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı
Graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law in 1999, Selçuk Argun has been working as a lawyer in trade, business and competition law for 18 years. He is currently working as a managing partner in Argun Law Office. He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, headquartered in Brussels. Since 2013, he has been a member of the TI-Turkey.
Fikret Sebilcioğlu – Vice Chair
Fikret Sebilcioglu is a managing partner at the Cerebra CPSs& Advisors Firm. Previously, he worked at PwC’s Istanbul and Rotterdam offices between 1993 and 2008 at the external audit department. He has experience in the fields such as accounting, financial reporting, internal control system, internal audit, forensic accounting, fraud examination, ethics and compliance programs.
Since 2009 he has been focused on the subjects like misuse of company assets, bribery, conflict of interest, financial statement fraud, compliance with FCPA and UK Bribery Act and forensic accounting. He also serves at the international firms established in Turkey in the fields of UFRS, US. GAAP, internal control, internal audit and making them comply with the Sarbanes&Oxley law as well. He has experience in designing and implementing the internal control systems and in the examination of the operational activities, as well as the design and implementation of internal audit mechanism and financial reporting. He has the titles of Certified Fraud Examiners, Professional Certified Public Accountant, TRACE Anti-Bribery Specialist and Independent Auditor. He is married, has two children and speaks English.
Çiçek Olgu Kama – Vice Chair
Çiçek Olgu Kama graduated from the Faculty of Law at Istanbul Bilgi University and in 2006, she got her Master Degree in Economic Law at Galatasaray University. In the same year, she finished the program of International Business and Finance at New York University and in 2008, having finished the master degree in Banking, Corporate and Finance Law at Fordham University she gained her second L.L.M. degree.
Attorney Olgu Kama who has been working on compliance with the corporate law, white collar crimes, the fight against corruption, the corporate law and the commercial law over fifteen years is registered in the Istanbul Bar Association since 2003. In addition to the Works of B20 Anti-Corruption Group, she served as co-chair at B20 the Anti-Corruption Task force in 2015. In the meantime, she wrote many articles about the compliance with the law and took place as a speaker in both international and national conferences and symposiums. Since 2012 she has been a member of TI-Turkey
Diğdem Soyaltın
Diğdem Soyaltın is an Assistant Professor at Department of Political Science at Altınbaş University in Istanbul. She is a member of Turkish Political Science Association and the managing editor of Research Turkey-a London based research centre. Previously she has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Stockholm University Institute of Turkish Studies (SUITS) and a consultant in projects conducted by Council of Europe and European Union on anti-corruption policies and judicial sector reforms in Turkey. She has received her Ph.D from the Department of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and worked as a research fellow at the Research College on Transformative Power of Europe (KFG) during her Ph.D. studies. She holds a Master of Science in European Affairs from Lund University and Master of Philosophy in Political Science from Central European University in Budapest. She studied International Relations and European Politics for her Bachelor degree in Turkey. Her main research interests are Europeanisation and domestic change, public policy and governance, Turkish politics and more specific policies of fight against corruption. She has several publications related to her research areas that appeared in SSCI journals and books came out from internationally well-known publishers. Her recent book Europeanisation, Corruption and Good Governance in the Public Sector: The case of Turkey, examines role of external actors, especially the EU, in the promoting good governance and fight against corruption in Turkey (Routledge, 2017).
Şule Özsoy Boyunsuz
Prof. Dr. Şule Özsoy Boyunsuz completed her undergraduate education at Istanbul University Faculty of Law. She completed her master’s degree in public law at Istanbul University Institute of Political Sciences and her PhD in human rights law from Essex University. She worked as a research assistant in Istanbul University Faculty of Law, Department of Constitution. In 2002, She worked as an assistant lawyer at the ECHR. In 2004, She was appointed as an assistant professor to Galatasaray University Faculty of Law. In 2007-2008, She conducted a comparative scientific project on government systems with elected presidents and prime ministers at the University of Dublin, Ireland. She became an associate professor of constitutional law in 2010. Since 2017, She has been working as a professor at Galatasaray University as a lecturer.
Aslı Kazan
After completing her Italian High School, Aslı Kazan graduated from Bilgi University Faculty of Law in 2002. After graduation, she registered to the Istanbul Bar Association in 2003 and started her career as a lawyer. Born in Istanbul, Kazan is known for her work on human rights, freedom of expression and press law. Today, she continues to work at the Kazan Law Firm.
Rıdvan Akar
Rıdvan Akar graduated from Kabataş High School and Department of Public Finance of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Gazi University. In 1987 he completed his master degree in the Department of Public Finance in the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University. He works in different broadcasting organizations as a journalist and a documentary producer.
Audit Board
Ali Kamil Uzun
Ali Kamil Uzun is the founder of the Institute of Internal Auditing-Turkey and he has contributed to create a occupational organization of internal auditing in Turkey. He has contributed to implementation of International Internal Audit standards in Turkey. He has pioneered the launch of the internationally certified internal audit program and exam. Uzun graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration of Istanbul University and went on to do a Master’s degree at the Social Sciences Institute at Istanbul University. Ali Kamil Uzun wrote many articles and participated in several educational programs and seminars on corporate governance and internal audit. His master’s degree thesis which was on “Audit Committee Practices”, was one of the first studies on this subject in Turkey.
Kayra Üçer
Kayra Uçer received his LL.B degree from Marmara University in 1998 and his LL.M. degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2000. Kayra Üçer has been a partner in Hergüner Bilgen Özeke Attorney Partnership since 2000 in the Corporate Department. He is also co-founder of the International Law Institute (ILI) Istanbul and a member of the Corporate Governance Association.
Haşim Bayırbaş
He graduated from Kuleli Military High School in 1980 and from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1987. He still works as a legal counsel at Tekfen Holding, where he started working as a trainee lawyer after his graduation. He has voluntary memberships and board memberships in various non-governmental organizations and professional organizations that serve the purpose of developing and spreading awareness of environment and nature protection.
