Güler Aras, completed PhD in Banking and Economy in Marmara Universty, is the founding director of the Center for Finance, Corporate Governance, and Sustainability and a professor in the Department of Finance at Yıldız Technical University. She served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at Yıldız Technical University for several years. Prof. Aras has been invited to various universities in the United Kingdom and the United States as a visiting professor and researcher.  In 2014-2015, she was a visiting professor at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Center for Financial Market and Policy, where she continued her important projects and research. Prof. Aras was elected as a member of the Integrated Reporting and Connectivity Council (IRCC), the Advisory Board of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation. Additionally, she is the founder of the Integrated Reporting Association (ERTA) and currently serves as the chair of this initiative. Professor Aras, who has more than 300 publications, including more than 25 books, numerous articles and papers, numerous awards, and numerous national and international projects, has been awarded by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) for the project "An Alternative Approach in Corporate Sustainability Performance Measurement." She serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and is the founding editor of Emerald's Journal of Capital Market Studies. Prof. Aras has participated actively in the working commissions of numerous public institutions and organisations, in addition to her current responsibilities. As an Independent Board Member at the Capital Markets Association of Turkey, she has also served on the working and strategy commissions of the Undersecretariat of Treasury and Foreign Trade, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, and the Ministry of Development, and on the Specialized Commissions for the Preparation of Development Plans. Prof. Aras has been serving as an Independent Board Member at Allianz Turkey since 2015 and at Doğuş GYO since 2021. In 2020, Professor Aras was recognised as one of Turkey's Women of Courage for her contributions to fostering a new generation of academics and business leaders who can develop sustainable solutions to social and organisational challenges.

Güler Aras is an independent member according to the CMB Corporate Governance Principles. The duties she has undertaken in the last 10 years are explained above and she has not had any relationship with Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.Ş. and its related parties in the last five years.

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