Ayşe Figen Gardet

Born on June 8, 1972 in Ankara, Gardet graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Foreign Languages in 1995. She studied Communication and Marketing at University of California, Berkeley in 1998. Between 2000 and 2007, she worked as a broker for Carpenter Moore, USA Insurance and Wells Fargo, respectively. Gardet worked as a project manager at a San Francisco-based internet company for 3 years before entering insurance industry, and worked as Commercial Insurance Manager, Sales Group Manager and General Manager at AIG Sigorta between 2007-2017.

Gardet took place among the 50 Most Powerful Women CEOs of Turkey selected by the Economist magazine in 2017. She has been working as Assistant General Manager responsible for Corporate Communications and Marketing, Alternative Distribution Channels, Operations and Global Programs at GIG Sigorta since May 2017.