Ali Alp
Deputy Secretary of Tourism, Turkey

Ali Alp was born in Rize, Turkey in 1964 and is married with one child. He is currently Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Tourism, Turkey.

He was previously Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry and prior to that he held the same position in the Ministry of Prime Ministry, the Undersecretariat of Housing.

He has also held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors at both the Emlak Real Estate Investment Trust and the Emlak Housing Corporation. In 2002 he was the Associate Professor, Finance at the Turkish Higher Education Board.

His career in politics started in 1987 when he was appointed Specialist, Undersecretariat of Treasury and Foreign Trade and he then went on to hold the positions of Advisor to the State Minister in charge of Economy and Supervisor for Capital Markets Board of Turkey.

Dr Alp holds a degree in Political Sciences from the Department of Business Administration at Ankara University and an MBA from Marmara University. He undertook his doctoral research at the Maastricht School of Management and obtained a PhD in Finance from the Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences. Dr Alp has also written numerous books and articles.