Founded 2 April 1971 | Headquarters Istanbul, Turkey | |
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Founders Muzaffer Gazioglu, İbrahim Bodur, Ahmet Sapmaz Profiles | ||
TÜSİAD, the Turkish Industry and Business Association (Turkish: TÜSİAD), is Turkey's top business organization. The current Chair of the Board of Directors is Cansen Başaran–Symes.
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Founded in 1971, TÜSİAD is a voluntary, independent, non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting public welfare through private enterprise. TÜSİAD promotes principles of participatory democracy, a competitive market economy, environmental sustainability, and universal freedoms and human rights. The Association supports independent research and policy discussions on important social and economic issues in Turkey and abroad. Much like the U.S. Business Roundtable, TÜSİAD is composed of CEOs and executives from major industrial and service companies in Turkey, including Fortune 500 companies.
About
TÜSİAD represents more than 4,000 member companies which represent half of the Turkey's value-added; 80% of Turkey’s total foreign trade volume; more than 50% of private sector employment; and 80% of corporate tax revenue.
Structure
TÜSİAD headquarters are in Istanbul and there are seven representative offices: Ankara, Brussels, Washington, D.C., Paris, Berlin, Beijing and London.
TÜSİAD's activities are structured around round tables led by members of the board of directors and 36 working groups.
TÜSİAD partners with the Brookings Institution, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
TÜSİAD is a member of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC), B20 Coalition, and BusinessEurope.