Doç. Dr. Tahir BÜYÜKAKIN (Mayor of Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality)
He was born in 1969 in Derince, Kocaeli. Büyükakın, who received his Undergraduate Education in the Department of Public Administration of the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul University, furthermore completed his Master’s and Doctoral studies at the same University.
He continued his Academic Studies which he started as a Research Assistant at Kocaeli University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Department of Economics in 1993, in the Department of Economic Policy, and conducted studies in areas such as “Economic Crises and Stability Policies” and “Macroeconomics”. He received the title of Associate Professor in 2013.
Between 2005 and 2014, he served as Consultant, Deputy Secretary General and Secretary General in Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality. He was appointed to Bilecik Governorship as the Governor in June 2017. As a result of the March 31, 2019 Local Elections, he was elected as the Mayor of Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality.
Within the 44th Anniversary of the Marmara Municipalities Union, he was elected as the President at the 1st Ordinary Assembly Meeting of 2019 held on April 25, 2019, and became the sixteenth MBB President.
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