Yılmaz Argüden

Dr. Yılmaz Argüden (b. 1958, Eskişehir), strategist and governance expert.
He is the founder and chairman of ARGE Consulting. He served as chairman of Rothschild & Co. Türkiye., chair of the Trustees of Argüden Governance Academy, vice-chair of Turkish Basketball Federation During his career, he has served as an independent board member for more than 70 companies in 4 different jurisdictions. As a Professor of business strategy, he has taught MBA classes at leading academic institutions such as the Boğaziçi. and Koç Universities. He also taught strategy classes at the Military Academy. He has published 40+ books and 700+ articles and columns. He is a social entrepreneur, who has founded and/or led numerous NGOs. As the Chairman of the KalDer (Turkish Quality Association), he initiated the National Quality Movement which introduced new standards of quality in private and public sectors as well as NGOs throughout the country. As the elected chairman of Global Compact Local Networks, he served on the board of UN Global Compact He also served as vice chair of Governance Committee of Business at OECD. and as a member of IFC’s Corporate Governance Private Sector Advisory Group He was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. 
== Education ==
Graduated from Tarsus American College with the top GPA at senior year where he also played for the TAC Basketball Team that won the National Basketball Championship in 1976.
Received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Boğaziçi University, where he received both the Top Graduating Engineer Award and the President’s Prize for Student Leadership for initiating the first international SportsFest as the Chair of the University Sports Club (1980). He was also a member of the University basketball team that won National Championships twice in a row (1977 & 1978). 
He received his PhD in policy analysis from the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School with General Distinction.
Throughout his education, he received scholarships from Fulbright, TÜBİTAK, and NATO.
== Selected Publications ==
* Keys to Governancehttps://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230278141, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
* Boardroom Secretshttps://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230230774, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
* Measuring the effectiveness of corporate governancehttps://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-organisations/measuring-the-effectiveness-of-corporate-governance-1149, Insead Knowledge, 2010
* Attitude is everything: The case for Turkeyhttps://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-politics/attitude-is-everything-the-case-for-turkey-1006, Insead Knowledge, 2011
* Global Boards Help Make Companies Globalhttps://hbr.org/2011/11/board-diversity-and-global-age, Harvard Business Review, 2011
* Why Boards Need More Womenhttps://hbr.org/2012/06/why-boards-need-more-women, Harvard Business Review, 2012
* Obama and the Power of Inclusionhttps://hbr.org/2009/04/obama-and-the-power-of-inclusi, Harvard Business Review, 2009
* A Corporate Governance Modelhttps://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/95fc4c12-2fad-4e09-8f76-08922faf3745/GCGF%2BPSO%2Bissue%2B17%2B3-4-10.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=jtCxiEB, International Finance Corporation Private Sector Opinion 17, 2010
* Responsible Boards–Action Plan for a Sustainable Futurehttps://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/8ae85f5f-ee44-4b73-a9ae-31e3f9441d58/PSO36.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=kL8loH7, International Finance Corporation Private Sector Opinion 19, 2010
* Diversity at the Head Tablehttps://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/ae223d5a-569e-46d2-936b-e38b6a7d5409/IFC_PSO_19_WEB_RES.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=jtCxiR6, International Finance Corporation Private Sector Opinion 36, 2010
* Rio+20 Was a Busthttps://www.theglobalist.com/rio20-was-a-bust/, The Globalist, 2012
* Consensual Delegation of Sovereigntyhttps://www.theglobalist.com/consensual-delegation-of-sovereignty/, The Globalist, 2009
* From Global Crises to Global Governancehttps://www.theglobalist.com/from-global-crises-to-global-governance/, The Globalist, 2009
== Awards & Recognition ==
* Eisenhower Fellow, Philadelphia, 1993
* Distinguished Citizenship Award, Turkish-American Business Council, Washington DC, 2006
* Distinguished Career Award, Ataşehir Rotary Club, Istanbul, 2006
* Strategic Leadership Award, Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), Istanbul, 2006
* Leadership in Quality Award, Association on Employment Practices and Principles, San Francisco, 2001
Category:Turkish people
Category:1958 births
Category:People from Eskişehir