Nazan Somer

Nazan Somer Ozelgin was born in Istanbul in 1963. She completed her high school education in Istanbul American Robert College. Somer Ozelgin has an undergraduate university degree from the Business Administration Faculty of Bosphorus University of Istanbul. She joined Arthur Andersen Istanbul office as an Independent Auditor in 1988 and obtained her Certified Public Accountant Certificate in 1993. During her career with Arthur Andersen, Somer Ozelgin assumed auditing and financial consultancy responsibilities for companies in banking and finance, manufacturing, commerce, construction and tourism. Furthermore, she ran many internal control and workflow reviews, restructuring and due diligence projects as well as company valuations especially in the financial sector. She was the partner in charge of financial sector in the last two years of her career with Arthur Andersen Turkey. During this period, she also held responsibilities for financial sector clients in Bucharest and Sofia. Somer Ozelgin joined Yapi Kredi Bank in Turkey in 2000 as Executive Vice President in charge of Individual Banking.

Between 2003 and 2009, she served as Executive Vice President in charge of credit cards and consumer lending. Somer Ozelgin was the Executive Vice President in charge of Retail Banking and a member of the Executive Committee of Yapi Kredi from 2009 to 2018. She was also the acting CFO for Yapi Kredi between December 2004 and October 2005 in addition to her responsibilities as Executive Vice President in charge of credit cards and consumer lending.

Currently, Somer Ozelgin is the Chairperson of Mapfre Insurance, Turkey (subsidiary of Mapfre S.A. Spain) since May 2020 (Board member between December 2018 and May 2020). In addition to this responsibility, she is an Independent Supervisory Board Member of Unicredit Romania (since December 2017), an Independent Supervisory Board Member of Zagrebacka Banka (Unicredit Croatia) (since July 2018), an independent Supervisory Board member of Unicredit Slovenija (since May 2023) and an Independent Board Member of Worldline (HQ France) (since October 2020). She also holds Deputy Chair responsibility in Zagrebacka Banka in addition to being the Chairperson of the Risk Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. In Unicredit Romania, in addition to being a Supervisory Board Member she is the Audit Committee Chair and Risk Committee and Nomination Committee member. In Unicredit Slovenija, she is the Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board, Audit Committee Chair, Risk Committee and Remuneration Committee member.