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Erdal Yıldırım, from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation, was elected as the Chairman of the Board of Representatives in the elections held at the 2021 Board of Trustees Meeting held in accordance with the social distance and hygiene rules of the Third Sector Foundation of Turkey (TÜSEV) on June 18, 2021.

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İSTANBUL (TR) - In the elections held for the membership of the TUSEV Representatives Board at the meeting; Alparslan Tansuğ representing ENKA Sports Education and Social Aid Foundation, Candan Fetvacı representing Aydın Doğan Foundation, Cihan Özsönmez representing Vehbi Koç Foundation, Dr. Devrim Çubukçu representing the Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation, Gün Han Başik representing the Kadir Has Foundation, Hasan Süel representing the Vodafone Turkey Foundation, Nedret Ay-demir representing the Anadolu Education and Social Assistance Foundation, the Turkish Education Foundation Nermin Ceylan, representing the Hacı Ömer Sabancı Foundation, Nevgül Bilsel Safkan, representing the Elginkan Foundation, Prof. Dr. Öner Günçavdı was elected as the members of the Board of Representatives. As a result of the elections held for the membership of the Supervisory Board; Canan Ercan Çelik from the Borusan Kocabıyık Foundation, Nigar Evgin from the Turkish Spastic Children's Foundation-Cerebral Palsy Turkey and Sait Tosyalı from the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey were elected as TUSEV Supervisory Board Members. Also at the meeting, a plaque was presented to TEMA Foundation Chairman of the Board of Directors, Deniz Ataç, for his contributions to TÜSEV since 2016, when he took office as the Chairman of the TÜSEV Board of Representatives.

About Erdal Yıldırım, Chairman of the Board of Representatives of TUSEV

He was born in 1966 in Rize. He graduated from Kabataş High School for Boys in 1981 and from Boğaziçi University, Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1987. He received his MA in Philanthropy Studies from Indiana University (IU) in 2005.
Between 1991-97, he served as the General Secretary of Boğaziçi University Alumni Association (BÜMED). He continued his duty as the General Manager of the Vehbi Koç Foundation for more than twenty-three years, to which he was appointed in 1997. During this period, he took part in the management and / or executive boards of all institutions affiliated with the Foundation (Koç University, Koç School, American Hospital, Sadberk Hanım Museum, Arter). He assumed responsibility as a member of the board of directors or a member of the board of trustees in the leading non-governmental organizations of our country such as Boğaziçi University Foundation, TEGV, TEMA, and TUSEV.

In 2014, IU Rector Prof. He was awarded the Thomas Hart Benton Medal by Michael McRobbie for his national and international work in civil society. He was a member of the Governing Council at the European Foundation Center (EFC). He is still a member of the board of directors of the foundation ERFIP (Empower Families for Innovative Philanthropy) established in Geneva. Yıldırım has also been serving as the Chief Governance Of-ficer-CGO of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation since January 1, 2021, responsible for the institutionalization and governance activities.

The book “Tell Me About Your Board of Directors, Let Me Tell You Who You Are” was published by Yapı Kredi Publishing in 2012, and the book “Az mı Gittik, Uz mu Gittik: 50 Years of New Foundations” was published in 2017. Yıldırım, who also signed a special book called " Ateşin Üstünden Atladım" in 2016, was published in June 2021, the fourth book of Yıldırım, " Sayın Başkan, Değersiz Üyeler".
Erdal Yıldırım, who is married to musician Aslı Gökyokuş Yıldırım, is the father of Yaz, Nisan and Can.