As İNGEV continues to strengthen its governance and move towards a more institutional direction, it has included an important figure from the private sector in its executive board. Rana Birden, Head of Corporate Communications and Impact Investments at Kale Group, has become a member of the INGEV advisory board.
Born in 1975, Rana Birden graduated from the Department of International Relations at Galatasaray University in 1998 and completed the European Union Master’s Program at the same university in 2005.
Between 1999 and 2012, Birden served sequentially as a Senior Research Specialist at the Economic Development Foundation, Assistant Project Coordinator for the European Union Civil Society Development Program, EU Research and Documentation Coordinator at Bahçeşehir University, and Director at the Foundation for Social Participation and Development. Birden has also consulted for numerous foundations and associations, including the Sabancı Foundation, Third Sector Foundation of Turkiye, and Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. She continued her work as the General Manager of the Global Relations Forum Association from 2012 to 2014 and as a member of the Executive Board of the Turkiye Europe Foundation and C20 from 2014 to 2016, before joining Kale Group in 2016. We welcome her once again!