Kadir Bal (born 11 January 1966) is a

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, and

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. He is currently a Board Member at SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş., and was previously the Deputy Undersecretary at the

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of the

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Early life and education

Kadir Bal was born to Osman and Asiye Bal as the youngest of four children in the town of Yahyali in

Kayseri Kayseri () is a large List of cities in Turkey, city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri Province, Kayseri province. Historically known as Caesarea (Mazaca), Caesarea, it has been the historical capital of Cappadocia since anc ...

on 11 January 1966. The male head of the Bal family, Osman, previously worked as a rural taxi driver, and currently owns a glassware store, where Kadir helped his family by working in their store and shining shoes in his youth. After graduating as a

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from

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a prestigious public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, ...

in 1989, he received his

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from the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a Official bilingualism in Canada, bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ot ...

in 2000.

Career

Bal entered the Ministry of Economy, then the Undersecretariat of Treasury and Foreign Trade in 1991, and served as a foreign trade expert until 1997, when he served as Deputy Commercial Counsellor in the

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until 2000. After serving as Head of Department in the General Directorate of Imports, he served as Deputy General Director of Imports until 2008, where he served as Chief Commercial Counsellor in the Embassy of Turkey, Washington, D.C. for four years. After briefly serving as Acting General Director of Agreements and as General Director of Imports, he was the Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Turkey from April 2017 until his retirement from public service in April 2020. He is currently an Executive Board Member at SASA Polyester A.Ş., a producer of polyester staple fibers, filament yarns, polyester-based and specialty polymers and intermediates.

Personal life

Bal speaks

and

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fluently, and currently resides in

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. He is married to Nur Ayferi, and has two children: Mustaf

and Ayşe Rana.

References

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