Nomination Committee

Nureddin Nebati was born in Viranşehir, Şanlıurfa on 1st of January, 1964.

He is a political scientist. He studied at the Department of Public Administration the Faculty of Social Sciences, Istanbul University. He took his master’s degree in International Relations at the Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul University. He took his PhD in Political Science and Public Administration at the Institute of Social Sciences, Kocaeli University. He gave lectures in political science, Turkish politics, state and political sociology at a variety of universities.

He is a businessman with a background in textile business. He served as a board member of MUSIAD (Independent Industrialists’ and Businessmen's Association) and a member of the Disciplinary Board at Istanbul Chamber of Commerce. He is currently a member of MUSIAD’s High Advisory Board. He continues to act as a member of the Alumni Foundation and Association of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Istanbul University, the Society of Scientific Dissemination, Ensar, Tugva, Onder, Utesav, TDED, BEK, IDD, IDV and similar foundations and associations.

He is currently the president of the Foundation UTEV, and the Turkish president of the Interparliamentary Jerusalem Platform, and a member of the Scientific Board at Opinion Center for Esenler Municipality.

He was elected as a member of the AK Party’s Central Decision Board at its 4th Ordinary Congress. He also served as the president of AK Party’s Central Financial and Administrative Affairs, and the Deputy Party Leader.

He was elected as a member of the parliament for Istanbul in the 24th term, for Şanlıurfa in the 25th term and for Istanbul once again in the 26th term.

Nureddin Nebati has taken office as Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Treasury and Finance as of 6th of September, 2018.

He speaks English fluently, and knows some Arabic. Mr. Nebati is married and father of 4.​​

Dr. Ömer Fatih Sayan was born in İstanbul in 1977. He received his Bachelor degree from the Electronics Engineering Department of Istanbul 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.​​​​​​​​

Aclan Acar started his career in 1974. After working for the state-owned Halkbank for three years, he joined the Central Bank of Turkey in 1978 where he served in different departments until 1990. During this period Mr. Acar undertook several managerial responsibilities including establishing trading room, managing open market account for domestic operations, reorganizing and managing foreign exchange transactions division of money markets and treasury department of the Central Bank. Mr. Acar has been continuing his career within the Doğuş Group, one of the leading conglomerates of Turkey, since September 1990. First, he started at Garanti Bank, one of the leading private banks in the country, as the Executive Vice President in charge of Treasury and Financial Institutions. At this position, he also undertook administration of international branches and representative offices of Garanti Bank. Between 1994-1996 period, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Bank Ekspres, then owned by the Group. Following acquisition of Ottoman Bank, the oldest and one of the most respected banks of the country, by the Doğuş Group in June 1996, Mr. Acar was appointed as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank. Since April 2000 he serves as a Member of Board and the Executive Committee of Doğuş Group. Between the years 2001-2005 he served as the Chairman of Tansaş and in the meantime as the Chairman of Garanti Insurance and Garanti Pension Company. Between February 2006-March 2018, he acted as Chairman of Doğuş Otomotiv Servis Ticaret A.Ş.and Doğuş Oto Pazarlama A.Ş. Between March 2018- December 2018, he acted as the CEO and the Chairman of Doğuş Yayın Grubu.

Mr. Acar took his undergraduate degree from the Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences in Ankara. Later on, he received his MS degree in Banking and Insurance from the same university. Between the years of 1985-1986, he attained his MA degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.​​​​