Mustafa Kemal Abadan is a Founding Partner at Turkish Philanthropy Funds and currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Board. Mr. Abadan is a design partner in the architectural firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM). He designed SOM’s first completed commercial buildings in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Brazil, Chile, and Kazakhstan. Mr. Abadan has served more than 15 years as a lecturer at architecture schools, including Cornell University, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture. As the Chairman of the SOM Foundation since 2005, he raised the profile of the annual Student Traveling Fellowships. He has served as a selection panelist for the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans since 2000. Mr. Abadan was raised and educated in Turkiye, Germany, and the United States. As an undergraduate student in Cornell University’s Architecture program (Bachelor of Architecture, 1982), he won the Art Gensler Award for Design Excellence and the Eschweiler Prize for Scholastic Excellence in Design, formulating the foundations for his modernist architectural convictions.