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After graduating from Austrian High School in Istanbul in 1989, Nevgül Bilsel Safkan went on to study Business Administration at Istanbul University. She later graduated from the Executive MBA program at Bosphorus University in 2003.  

 

In 1993, she began her professional career as an auditor for Arthur Andersen and later held many different positions in financial management of leading firms in their rapid growth process. Nevgül Bilsel Safkan, who served as the CFO of Superonline from 1999 to 2004, joined the Sabancı Group in 2005. In 11 years with the Sabancı Group, she first worked as the CFO of Marsa and from 2006 to 2013, she served as the CFO for Teknosa where she managed investor relations and public offerings. In 2013, she was promoted to the position of General Manager of Kliksa.com, the e-commerce company within the Teknosa Group and held the post until 2016. In the years that followed (2016-2018), she served as General Manager for Hotelspro and Dyson/Hakman.  

 

Nevgül Bilsel Safkan, who returned to Sabancı Group as the General Manager of Sabancı Foundation in September 2018, has also been serving as the Deputy Chairperson of Third Sector Foundation of Turkey (TÜSEV) since 2019 and as a member of the Board of Education Reform Initiative (ERG) since 2020. Since 2020, Nevgül Bilsel Safkan has been a member of the Advisory Board of Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Excellence Center (SUGENDER). In 2021, she was awarded the title of Zero Project Ambassador by Essl Foundation, an Austria-based organization working in the field of disability rights, for a duration of four years. In 2023, she has been selected as a member of the Advisory Board of the European Philanthropy Association (Philea) for a duration of three years. 

 

Nevgül Bilsel Safkan is married with one child.