Selçuk Yaşar Ödülü | 1st SY Award
Selçuk Yaşar’ın Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin temelini oluşturan gençliğe ve çağdaşlık ülküsüne adayarak gerçekleştirdiği hedefi Yaşar Üniversitesi, Selçuk Yaşar Ödülü ile kurucusunun vizyon mirasını Türkiye’nin dört bir yanına taşıyor. Bu yıl ilk kez verilecek Selçuk Yaşar Ödülü, yeniliği, toplumsal faydayı ve geleceğin Türkiye’sini hedefleyen cesur insanların çalışmalarını kutlamayı, başarılarını tüm Türkiye’ye duyurmayı ve Türkiye’den dünyaya açılan yeni hayallere güç vermeyi hedefliyor.
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1st SY Award

AHMET FAHRİ YİĞİTBAŞI

President

After studying Mechanical Engineering at Aachen Technical University in Germany and completing his master’s degree in Fuel Engineering department, he started his career at Union Kraftstoff in 1987. He acted as the Deputy CEO, and then as the CEO of Botaş Packaging Industries Inc. between 1990 and 1996. He was the Vice President and President at Yaşar Holding Paints and Chemical Industries Group between 1996-2015.

He has been serving as the President of Yaşar University Board of Trustees since 2010 and Executive Board Member of Dyo Paints Incorporation and as the Vice-President of the Executive Board Member of Desa Energy Inc. since 2015. He worked as a founding Board Member at the Turkish Association of Paint Industry, and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors between 2007-2009 and 2017-2019.

Ahmet Fahri Yiğitbaşı is also a member of Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) and Aegean Industry and Business Association (ESİAD).

Cansen BAŞARAN-SYMES

Member

She graduated from İstanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration and joined Price Waterhouse (PW) Turkey when it was established in 1981. She served PwC for 32 years in various levels until 2013. Cansen worked at the PW Copenhagen office in 1983 and at the PW London office in 1989. In 1990 she was admitted to the PW European partnership. On July 1st, 1998 she was appointed as the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Turkey leader and senior partner in charge of country operations and undertook this duty until the end of 2012. Cansen was a member of the board of directors of PwC – Central and Eastern Europe Region between 1998 – 2005 and the board member in PwC Eurofirm between 2005 – 2008. In April 2014 Cansen has been appointed as a Member of Board of Directors of Alcatel Lucent Teletaş Telekomünikasyon A.Ş.

Prof. Dr. Nihat BERKER

Member

He was the Rector of Sabancı University between 2009 and 2016. MIT Emeritus Physics Professor Nihat Berker received his double major B.S. degrees in physics and chemistry from MIT and Ph.D. degrees in physics from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Following his postdoctoral research fellow in the department of physics at Harvard University, he served as an assistant professor during 1979-1999 and professor of theoretical physics during 1988-2004 at MIT.

After returning back to Turkey in 1999, he has lectured undergraduate, graduate, high school students and gave public lectures as well. He served as the Head of Physics Department and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at İTU and Professor at Koç University.

Today, he has been working as the Vice Rector of Kadir Has University and continues his scientific and academic studies.

Dr. Yılmaz ARGÜDEN

Member

Dr. Argüden graduated from Tarsus American College with the Outstanding Achievement Award and further graduated from Bosporus University both ranking in the first degree and by receiving the Rectoral Prize for Student Leadership. He participated in the Turkey Champion school basketball teams throughout both high school and college years. Dr. Argüden who went to the USA with a NATO scholarship for his PhD. received his PhD in Strategic Analysis with an Outstanding Achievement Award from the RAND Graduate Institute.

Having been awarded in many categories such as Strategic Leadership, Superior Citizenship, Distinguished Career, Dr. Argüden has been nominated among 100 Global Leaders of the Future by the World Economic Forum for his efforts to improve the quality of life. Dr. Yılmaz Argüden has been enriching his experiences through a wide range of assignments from the private sector to the public sector and international organizations as well as non-governmental organizations and academic life.

Prof.Dr. Arif HEPBAŞLI

Member

He was born in İzmir in 1958. He has been dealing with energy related issues for 36 years. Throughout this time, he has worked for different industry companies for 10 years and participated in research studies in different universities since 1996. He advocates an approach assembling Industry (I), Professional Organizations (P) and University (U), namely IPU (or nowadays referred to as Research, Innovation and Commercialization (RIC)) in a balanced formulation.

Being a participant in the organization of numerous national/international scientific events, Dr. Hepbaşlı is a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of 7 prestigious journals and the Assistant Editor of 1 international journal. He is also a referee for many energy related national and international journals and projects. He proceeds his research studies within Yaşar University.