Arda Batu

Secretary General & Board Member

Arda Batu is the Secretary General & Board Member of Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation (TÜRKONFED). Arda attained his high school degree from The Browning School in 1996 and then joined New York University, where he was included in the “Dean’s Honors List”. Arda moved to Istanbul in 1997 and transferred his studies to Bosphorus University, where attained his BA degree from the Department of Political Science & International Relations. In 2001, Arda joined the European Parliament Internship program and then joined the European Studies Institute MA program of The Marmara University; he graduated 2003. Besides his role at TURKONFED, Arda Batu serves as an independent board member at Federal Mogul Izmit Piston, a subsidiary of Tenecco Powertrain in Turkey. Arda is on the executive board of Connecting Business Initiative (CBi), a joint initiative by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In addition, he is on the board of Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) and High Council Member of Human Development Foundation (INGEV).