PROF. DR. FARUK BILIR

Prof. Dr. Faruk Bilir is the President of Personal Data Protection Authority of Turkey. He studied at the Faculty of Law at Selcuk University, where he also obtained Master and Ph.D. degrees in Public Law. He served as a lecturer from 2001 to 2014. During the past two years, he has been he Head of the Department of Constitutional Law.

He also served as the Faculty of Law Dean at Karatay University. While a Legal Counselor in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, he was elected as the Member of the Board of the Protection of Personal Data by the President of the Republic of Turkey in 2016 and later elected as the President of the Personal Data Protection Authority in early 2017.

Bilir has a range of published books and articles on constitutional law, political science, parliamentary law, governmental systems, and human rights.