DR. AHMET GENÇ
Chairman of the Board of Directors

Dr. Ahmet Genç was born in Ankara in 1960. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Science Department of Public Administration in 1984. Between 1985 and 1990 he worked as assistant specialist and specialist at Undersecretariat of Treasury General Directorate of Banking and Foreign Exchange Banking Department. In 1990, he attended an insurance and reassurance training in England for a year. He received his graduate degree in Northeastern University Department of Economics in Boston, USA between 1993 and 1995. In 1997, he transferred from Undersecretariat of Treasury General Directorate of Banking and Foreign Exchange to General Directorate of Insurance and promoted to Head of Department in 1998. He received his PhD from Ankara University Social Sciences Institute Department of Business Administration in 2002 with his thesis on “Financial Adequacy in Insurance”. Mr. Genç served as Assistant General Manager between 2002 and 2004, Deputy General Manager between 2004 and 2007 and General Manager between 2007 and 2015 at the General Directorate of Insurance and he was appointed as Deputy Undersecretary of Treasury as of 22 February 2015. He served as founding member of the boards/committees or president at various insurance related institutions and organizations such as Insurance Information Center, Insurance Training Center (SEGEM) and Agricultural Insurance Pool (TARSİM). He also delivers classes in various universities as an academician. Dr. Ahmet Genç has been appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of our Bank in August 2018 and he is a member of the Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Genç also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ziraat Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş. and Ziraat Sigorta A.Ş.

YUSUF DAĞCAN
Vice Chairman of the Board

Yusuf Dağcan graduated from Eskişehir Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences. At Vakıfbank he worked as an assistant inspector between 1977 and 1981 and as an inspector and then as a branch manager at Kırşehir, Kayseri Merkez, Konya Merkez, Meşrutiyet, and Kızılay Başkent branches between 1981-2003. He held a seat on the Board of Directors of TAIB Yatırım Bank A.Ş. from 5 September 2007 until 30 June 2008. After assuming responsibility as a member of the Audit Committee at Halkbank from 27 March 2003 until 18 April 2012, Mr. Dağcan was also the chairman of the Board of Directors of Halk Leasing, a Board member of Halk Bank A.D. Skopje operating in Macedonia, and Vice Chairman of the Arab Turkish Bank. Serving as the Vice Chairman on our Bank’s Board of Directors since April 2012, Mr. Dağcan is also a member of the Bank’s Credit Committee. Mr. Dağcan is Vice Chairman at the boards of Ziraat Participation and JSC Ziraat Bank Georgia.

HÜSEYİN AYDIN
CEO and Member of the Board

Hüseyin Aydın graduated from the Ankara Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences (Faculty of Economics) in 1981. He began his career as an Assistant Inspector at Ziraat Bank and served as a director in various departments at Ziraat Bank until 27 March 2003. After working as an Executive Board member at Halkbank, as a Board member at Pamukbank and as Vice Chairman of the board at Ziraat Bank, Mr. Aydın worked as the General Manager and Board member at Halkbank between 31 May 2005 and 14 July 2011. Having joined Ziraat Bank as the CEO on 15 July 2011, Mr. Aydın also serves as the Chairman of the Banks Association of Turkey and a member of the Board of Directors of Turkey Wealth Fund.

YUSUF BİLMEZ
Member of the Board

Yusuf Bilmez graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Hacettepe University in 1979. He began his career as an Assistant Inspector at Ziraat Bank on 25 July 1983 and served as an Inspector until 1989, as Deputy Personnel Manager between 1989-1992, as a Branch Manager between 1992-2003, as an Executive Vice President between 2003-2005, as the Chairman of the Inspection Board between 2005-2007, as Group President of Internal Audit between 2007-2010 and as the Executive Vice President at Ziraat Teknoloji between 2010-2013 and as a Consultant between May 2013 to 12 June 2017. He was appointed as a Board Member of our Bank in 12 June 2017, and he is also an alternate of the Credit Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. Besides the tasks described above, he served as Vice President of Executive Board and as a Board Member in Azer Turk Bank, the Turkmen Turkish JSC Bank, Kazakhstan KZI Bank, Ziraat Teknoloji A.Ş. and Ziraat Yatırım A.Ş. respectively, which are our Bank’s affiliates. He currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Boards of Directors of Ziraat Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş. and Ziraat Sigorta A.Ş.

FARUK ÇELİK
Member of the Board

Born in 1956 in Yusufeli District/Artvin, Faruk Çelik graduated from Bursa Higher Islamic Institute and thereafter attended at the Department of Management in Kocaeli Management Institute. He was 21st, 22nd and 23rd term Bursa MP and 24th and 26th term Şanlıurfa MP in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. He served as the Minister of Labor and Social Security and the State Minister at the 60th, 61st and 62nd Governments; served as the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock at the 64th and 65th Governments. He has been working as a member to the Board of our Bank as of 27 May 2019.

FEYZİ ÇUTUR
Member of the Board

Feyzi Çutur graduated from Gazi University (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Banking) in 1983. He received his MBA degree from Beykent University Institute of Social Sciences Department of Business Administration. After working as accounting and finance manager at various private sector companies from 1977 until 1990, he functioned as General Accounting Manager at Bayındır Menkul Değerler A.Ş. (1990-1998), as Finance and Operations Director, Assistant General Manager and General Manager at Eti Yatırım A.Ş. (1998-2010). He served as the Fund Board member and Fund Board Chairman at Eti Yatırım and various Mutual Funds owned by Etibank, and held a seat on the Board of Directors of İktisat Yatırım A.Ş. in 2006. From July 2011 until March 2012, he was a Board member representing the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (SDIF) at Arab Turkish Bank and its subsidiary A&T Leasing. Being a member of the Bank’s Board of Directors since April 2012, Mr. Çutur is a member of the Bank’s Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee, an alternate member of the Credit Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Directors, Credit Committee and Audit Committee of Ziraat Participation and the Board of Directors of Ziraat Bank (Moscow). Mr. Çutur served as a member of the Board of Directors of ZiraatBank BH d.d. until August 2017.

MAHMUT KAÇAR
Member of the Board

Mahmut Kaçar graduated from Harran University Faculty of Engineering Department of Environmental Engineering in 1999.

He served as the Deputy President of Sağlık-Sen which is an association of Memur-Sen Confederation (union of public officers) between 2002 and 2008, as the President of Sağlık-Sen and the General Secretary of Memur-Sen between 2008 and 2011. He was elected as a member of the parliament from Şanlıurfa and served at 24th and 26th terms of the parliament between 2008 and 2011. Mr. Kaçar serves as a Member of the Board of Directors and a Member of the Corporate Governance Committee of our Bank since August 2018.

He also serves as the Member of the Board of Directors at Ziraat Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş. and Ziraat Sigorta A.Ş. since August 2018.

SERRUH KALELİ
Member of the Board

Having graduated from the primary and secondary schools of TED Ankara College, he attended Ankara Law Faculty and graduated from this faculty in 1977. He completed his military service at the Air Force Command as the reserve officer Military Prosecutor. He was an accountant member to the Board of Directors of Ankara Bar Association respectively from 1996 to 1998; he was an accountant member and member to the Board of Directors of the two-period Turkish Law Institute between 2000-2002 and 2002-2004, an auditor member to Union of the Turkish Bar Association in 2001 for a period of four years. He took part in the preparation of Regulations under the Amended Lawyer’s Act in the commissions included in the structure of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations. He served at the season of 2004-2005 as Deputy Chairmanship of the Turkish Basketball Federation Disciplinary Board; he exercised his independent occupation as a lawyer registered at Ankara Bar Association for the period elapsing from 1978-1980-1981 until 19 July 2005 on which he was elected for the membership of the Constitutional Court. He was employed as the Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court from 14 April 2011 to 14 April 2015 , besides by the Constitutional Amendment of 12 September 2010 he was assigned with the task of carrying out auditing the fundamental rights and freedoms which may be allegedly violated through the right to individual application which is falling within its duty and jurisdiction, he performed the Chairmanship for the first of the two sections for the period elapsing from 14 April 2011 to 14 April 2015. He has been working as the member to the Board of Directors of our Bank as of May 2019.

MEHMET NİHAT ÖMEROĞLU
Member of the Board

After graduating from the Law School of İstanbul University he was appointed as a judge in 1975. After his long lasted task as a judge, he served as the General Director of Legal Affairs and as the General Director of Criminal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice between 2003-2005. In 2005 he was elected as a member of the Supreme Court of Appeals. In November 2012 he was elected as the first chief ombudsman by the General Assembly of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and he served for a period of four years. He rendered service from 8 June 2017 to 27 May 2019 as a member of the Board of Directors of Türkiye Halk Bankası A.Ş. He has been performing his duty as a member of the Board of our Bank since May 2019.

PROF. DR. GÜLNUR AYBET
Member of the Audit Board

Prof. Dr. Gülnur Aybet is the Senior Advisor to the President of the Republic of Turkey and is a member of Security and Foreign Policies Board. She worked at Yıldız Technical University on the field of International Relations as professor between 2017-2019 in Turkey; she was the Head of Department of Political Science and International Relations and founding director of BAUCESS Security Surveys Center, Bahçeşehir University between 2014-2016; and she came back from England in 2013 and founded the Department of International Relations at İstanbul Özyeğin University. Gülnur Aybet, who held an academic post at the International Relations and Political Science Department of the University of Kent, England between 2001-2013, founded and managed the first Master’s Degree Program on the field of International Security at the University of Kent. Besides, she worked as academician at the University of Nottingham in England and Bilkent University in Turkey. Her fields of specialization/majoring include international security, Transatlantic relations and post-war state and security structuring within scope of NATO and EU. Prof. Aybet got her BA degree (BA Hons Economics and Public Administration) from Royal Holloway College, London University/UK, Master’s Degree (MSc. International Relations) from the Southampton University, her second Master’s Degree (M.Phil. War Sciences) from the King’s College London University and likewise got her doctorate degree (International Relations) from Nottingham University in the UK. Prof. Dr. Gülnur Aybet, who worked as director of many research projects for NATO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the British Academy and TÜBİTAK (Scientific & Technical Research Association of Turkey), served as a visiting research fellow at international academic institutions such as Oxford University St Antony’s College, Johns Hopkins University, Woodrow Wilson Center. At present Prof. Dr. Gülnur Aybet has been lecturing at the University of National Defense as the visiting lecturer. She provided consultancy services on the international security issues to international organizations such as NATO, EU, and to many government establishments as well, and has become well known and renowned by making analyses to international media on current issues. Prof. Dr. Aybet has been serving as a member of the Audit Board of our Bank since March 2019.

FATİH MEHMET DOĞAN
Member of the Audit Board

He was graduated from the Department of Finance, the Faculty of Political Sciences, İstanbul University in 2002. He began his career in the retail electrical equipment sector at his own enterprises. After serving as National Real Estate Supervisor Assistant at the Ministry of Finance between 2005-2007, likewise as Assistant Specialist at the Department of Economic and Sectoral Researches at the same Ministry between 2007-2009, he worked at the Social Security Corporation for a period from 2009 to 2010 as a Consultant. He was awarded with the Master’s Degree in 2008 upon his study/research on the Public Investments at the Department of Finance Theory, Marmara University. Having served as the Treasury Specialist at various Departments of the General Directorate of the Treasury Undersecretariat Public Finance since 2010, he has worked as the Consultant for the last two period of the Treasury Undersecretariat as from 2015. Throughout two years of period in which he worked as the Consultant at Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the USA from 2017 to 2018 he carried out studies on the fields of Money and Financial Policies. Mr. Doğan, who has been already serving at the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, has been proceeding his PhD thesis on the “Public Borrowing” at Hacettepe University. He has been working as a member of the Audit Board of our Bank since May 2019.