Early Identification and Management of Risks Committee

Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, Dr. İsmail İlhan Hatipoğlu was born in Karaman in 1968. He graduated from Karaman High School in 1984 and from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Finance in 1988. By passing the competitive exam in 1989, he started his career at the Ministry of Finance as an Intern Revenue Controller. He was appointed as Revenue Controller in 1992 and as Chief Revenue Controller in 2000. He conducted research on the EU Tax System in UK between May and December 1997.

Deputy Minister Dr. Hatipoğlu served as the Head of Department of the General Directorate of Revenue in 2003, Head of Department of Revenue Administration in 2005, and Deputy Head of Revenue Administration in 2007, respectively. He was subsequently appointed as General Director of Budget and Financial Control in 2009. Between 2016 and 2018, he served as Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance. After 2018, he worked as Ministry Consultant and Chief Tax Inspector.

During his duties at the Ministry of Finance, Dr. Hatipoğlu served as the Chairman of the Internal Audit Coordination Board between 2009 and 2019, as a Member of the State Support Monitoring and Supervision Board between 2010 and 2018, and as the Second Chairman of the latter after 2015.

He served as a Member of the Board of Directors of Turkish Maritime Enterprises between 2009 and 2010, and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors between 2010 and 2016. In addition, Mr. Hatipoğlu served as a member of the AVEA Audit Board, representing the Treasury, between 2014 and 2015.

Dr. Hatipoğlu served as the co-chair of the Tax and Incentives Committee of the Investment Environment Improvement Coordination Board between 2016 and 2018, and he served as the Chairman of the Technical Committee which was established upon the International Agreement between the Republic of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Dr. Hatipoğlu served as a Board Member of Ankara University Teknokent between 2019 and 2020. Mr. Hatipoğlu, who took position as a General Manager in the private sector for a short time, still continues to serve as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Athletics Federation, which he has held since 2012.

Dr. Hatipoğlu has also been teaching "Public Financial Management" and "Risk Management and Implementations" courses in the Internal Audit and Internal Control Master's Program at Social Sciences Institute of Ankara University since 2015. In the 2019 Spring semester, he taught the 'Public Financial Management and Control' course in the Audit and Risk Management Master's Program within Ankara Social Sciences University.

Mr. Hatipoğlu, who completed his master's degree in 2019 at Ankara University Social Sciences Institute, Department of Business Administration, completed his PhD studies, which he started in 2019, at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Department of Finance, in 2023.

Dr. Hatipoğlu, who was appointed as Deputy Minister of Treasury and Finance with the approval of our President on June 22, 2023, is married and has two children; and speaks English fluently.

Dr. Ömer Fatih Sayan was born in İstanbul in 1977. He received his Bachelor degree from the Electronics Engineering Department of İstanbul University Faculty of Engineering; Faculty of Law of Bahçeşehir University and Diplomatic Studies of Oxford University - St Antony’s School. He completed his Master’s Degree at Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Communications Engineering Department of Technical University of Munich and at Biomedical Engineering Department of İstanbul University Institute of Science and Technology. He also received his PhD on Biomedical Engineering at the İstanbul University Institute of Science and Technology. Starting his career in İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality in 1995, Mr. Sayan worked in private companies in Turkey, Germany and USA in the fields of chip manufacturing, cell phone design and R&D after receiving his Bachelor’s Degree. He carried out studies in entrepreneurship by working under the initiative of Silicon Valley and he gave lectures on Information Law and New Trends in Informatics in many universities in Turkey and Germany. Ömer Fatih Sayan has given many lectures in conferences about research subjects and he has many articles published in scientific journals. He carried out his duty as Advisor to the Prime Minister and Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister between the years of 2007 and 2014. He has worked as Information and Communications Technologies Authority (ICTA) Chairman from June 2015 to July 2018. He has been assigned as the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure on July 21, 2018. He is married and father of 3. He speaks English, German and French.