Mehmet Şimşek

Mehmet Şimşek      ( politician)
Born	1 January 1967  Gercüş,  Turkey
Nationality	•  Turkish •  British
Ethnicity	Kurdish
Alma mater	•  Ankara University •  University of Exeter
Parents	•  Mehdiye Simsek •  Hasan Simsek
Children	3
Spouse	Annalise Granwald
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British-Turkish Merrill Lynch bankster who attended 2 Bilderbergs as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey  Turkey/Minister/Treasury and Finance In office 4 June 2023 - Present  Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey  In office 24 November 2015 - 9 July 2018 Boss Binali Yıldırım Office ended  Turkey/Minister of Finance In office 1 May 2009 - 24 November 2015  Turkey/Minister of State for the Economy In office 28 August 2007 - 1 May 2009  Turkey/Member of the Grand National Assembly  In office 22 July 2007 - Present  Head of Fixed Income Strategy and Macro Economic Research for the emerging EMEA region In office 2006 - 2007 Employer Merrill Lynch Later Turkish Minister of Finance and Bilderberger

Mehmet Şimşek is a British-Turkish banker and politician. Having worked for the US embassy and several international banks, he was selected to become Minister of Finance from 2009 until 2015. He attended two Bilderberg meetings (2016 and 2018) as Deputy Prime Minister, and one more in 2024 after again becoming Minister of Finance.

Backgound

Şimşek comes from a Kurdish family from the vicinity of Batman. According to his own information, he only learned Turkish in elementary school.

Education

Şimşek received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Ankara University in 1988. After working as a research assistant , he received a state scholarship to study at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, where he received his master's degree in Finance and Investments in 1993.

Banking career

He worked as a senior economist at the US Embassy in Ankara from 1993 until 1997. In 1997, Şimşek spent about a year in New York City, where he worked for UBS Securities.

He also worked as a senior economist and bank analyst at Bender Securities, later a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, from 1998 to 2000.

Şimşek worked for seven years as Chief Economist and Strategist for the Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region at Merrill Lynch in London. During this time, he had numerous contacts with the Turkish authorities and the Central Bank and was involved in shaping economic policy in cooperation with the AKP government.

Political career

In Spring 2006 Şimşek was nominated as a candidate for the Turkish Central Bank Governor, but the appointment was not approved. A few months later, Şimşek gained a private meeting with Prime Minister Erdoğan. That meeting proved the catalyst to the birth of his political career. In literally the space of a weekend, Şimşek received sabbatical leave from Merrill Lynch and found himself back in Turkey.

In 2007, he was elected as an AKP candidate in the Gaziantep constituency. Soon after being sworn in as a Member of Parliament, Simsek was named State Minister of the Economy. He was suddenly in a position to push forward an agenda of structural reform . He was responsible for the Treasury and the Central Bank of Turkey.

Şimşek was then appointed Minster of Finance in 2009, and had the position under Prime Ministers Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu until 2015.

Şimşek was Deputy Prime Minister from 2015 until the beginning of July 2018 and was considered a guarantor of good economic development among international investors and was counted among the adherents of an orthodox economic doctrine. Şimşek was replaced as an authority on financial and economic issues by Erdogan's son-in-law Berat Albayrak.

In June 2023, he returned to the post of Minister of Finance.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2016	9 June 2016	12 June 2016	Germany Dresden	The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
Bilderberg/2018	7 June 2018	10 June 2018	Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress	The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.
Bilderberg/2024	30 May 2024	2 June 2024	Spain Madrid	The 70th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/2025	12 June 2025	15 June 2025	Sweden Stockholm	The 71st Bilderberg Meeting, the location and dates of which were announced online in 2024
Institute of International Finance/Annual Membership Meeting/2023	12 October 2023	14 October 2023	Morocco Marrakech	Financial leaders gained insights on points such as Net Zero, AI, Digital Transformation, and CBDCs.
Institute of International Finance/Annual Membership Meeting/2025	14 October 2025	17 October 2025	US Washington DC	Attendees gained insight from the panels and conversations with prominent figures such as Chairs and CEOs of major financial institutions, Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, and Global Standard Setters from around the world.
Munich Security Conference/2026	13 February 2026	15 February 2026	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 2026 Munich Security Conference had as theme "Under destruction". The solution is - as always - more spending on weapons
WEF/Annual Meeting/2008	23 January 2008	27 January 2008	Switzerland WEF	At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	Switzerland WEF	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2015	21 January 2015	24 January 2015	Switzerland WEF	Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 260 "Public Figures".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	Switzerland WEF	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	Switzerland WEF	2952 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
Yalta European Strategy/Meeting/2016	15 September 2016	17 September 2016	Ukraine Kiev	Yearly junket conference in Ukraine funded by sugar daddy Victor Pinchuk.
Yalta European Strategy/Meeting/2017	14 September 2017	16 September 2017	Ukraine Kiev	Yearly junket conference in Ukraine funded by sugar daddy Victor Pinchuk.

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