Kadir Bal

Kadir Bal
Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy
Personal details
Born	(1966-01-11) 11 January 1966 Yahyalı, Kayseri, Turkey
Alma mater	Middle East Technical University University of Ottawa
Profession	Bureaucrat, Diplomat, Engineer

Kadir Bal (born 11 January 1966) is a Turkish bureaucrat, diplomat, and engineer. He is currently the Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry of the Economy of the Republic of Turkey.

Early life & Education

Kadir Bal was born to Osman and Asiye Bal as the youngest of four children in the town of Yahyali in Kayseri province 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 Mechanical Engineer from Middle East Technical University in 1989, he received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa in 2000.

Career

Bal entered the Ministry of Economy, then the 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 Embassy of Turkey, Ottawa 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 is currently Acting Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy.

Personal Life

Bal currently resides in Ankara. He is married to Nur Ayferi, and has two children, Mustafa[1] and Ayşe Rana.