Nilufer Gunhan is a senior executive with 25 years of experiencing building, scaling and governing regulated financial services businesses across the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Nilüfer Günhan is a senior executive with 25 years of experiencing building, scaling and governing regulated financial services businesses across the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Nilufer’s career spans financial services, insurance, automotive and governance of family enterprises. As Founding CEO of several finance companies in Turkey, UK and MENA, Nilüfer also chaired the Consumer Finance Companies Association and is a founding board member of the Non-bank Financial Services Institutions Association in Turkey where she has advocated for the country’s first NBFI law. From 2018 to 2022, Nilüfer served as Chief Financial Services Officer of Abdul Latif Jameel International in Dubai, with governance and P&L responsibility for financial services and insurance operations across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UK and Turkey. Nilüfer has served on the boards of publicly traded and private companies in different sectors and is a longstanding advocate for women’s leadership and empowerment as well as a specialist in governance transitions and board succession in family enterprises, women’s economic empowerment and intergenerational leadership transfer, and digital transformation oversight at board level. She is a member of European Women on Boards, the Independent Board Directors Association Turkey. She has been recognised among the 50 Best Women CEOs in Turkey (2018) and the 20 Most Inspiring Digital Women CEOs in Turkey (2023). Nilüfer is a 2026 Fellow of Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative, holds an MBA from the University of West Georgia US and a BA in Business Administration from Marmara University, with executive education at MIT Sloan, Oxford Saïd Business School and INSEAD.