
Osman Çelik
Deputy Minister of Ministry of Treasury and Finance
Osman Çelik, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Treasury and Finance, was born in Erzincan/Kemaliye in 1964. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics at the Middle East Technical University.
Between 1986 and 1987, he worked as an economist at the State Institute of Statistics. Between 1988 and 1995, he worked as a Specialist and as Chief Specialist at the Project Assessment and Preparation Department of the Faisal Finance Institution. He continued his duty as the Project and Marketing Manager at İhlas Finance between 1995 and 1999.
Between 2000 and 2005, he worked as the Executive Vice President at Anadolu Finance. He took up the positions of Executive Vice President responsible for Loans and Commercial Banking, respectively at the Türkiye Finans Katılım Bank between years 2006 and 2015 and as the CEO from June 2015.
Mr. Çelik was appointed as the Undersecretary to the Treasury on 29 June 2016. During this period, he also served as Executive Committee Member at Islamic Development Bank and as Turkey’s G-20 Sherpa. He also served as Governor at World Bank, EBRD, Asian Development Bank, Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, Ecobank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and as Executive Committee Member at FSB, Financial Stability Committee, Interest-Free Finance Coordination Board and KOSGEB (Small and Medium Industry Development Organization). He was also National Authorising Officer between June 2016 and August 2018, as well.
Mr. Çelik, who served as Chairman of the Board, Member of the Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee at Turkish Eximbank between 2017 and 2021, has been appointed as a Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Credit Committee at Vakıf Katılım Bankası A.Ş as of October 2018. Osman Çelik has been appointed as the CEO of Vakıf Katılım as of 25 March 2022.
Mr.Osman Çelik has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Treasury and Finance on 21 June 2023.




