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Jury

Agah Uğur

Borusan Holding
Board Member

Agah Ugur was born in 1957 in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied industrial engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK then qualified as a chartered accountant in England in 1985.

He worked in accountancy, consulting and banking firms in England and Turkey before joining Borusan Group in 1989 as its CFO. Since 2001 he is the CEO of the Group.

Borusan Group, one of the most prominent conglomerates of Turkey, founded in 1944 operates in steel, distribution, logistics and energy sectors in 11 countries. It has numerous international partnerships with companies like ArcelorMittal, Caterpillar, BMW, Mannesmann, EnBW.

Agah holds numerous board and advisory board positions in NGO’s.

He is also an art collector.