Mehmet Şimşek

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Mehmet Şimşek (b Batman, Turkey 1967) is a Minister of State of Turkey, responsible for economics, foreign trade and the Treasury. He is member of Parliament for Gaziantep of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi

He was appointed to this position in August 2007. A neo-liberal monetarist economist, previously he worked as head of economic and strategic research for the Middle East and Africa at Merrill Lynch. At this time he had a number of contacts with the Turkish authorities and the Central Bank and had worked with the AKP government on economic policy.

He is now faced with coping with an economy heavily in debt and in need of careful management, especially sectors such as textiles which are in flux and suffering heavily from competition from China. ^[1]

Şimşek has both British and Turkish citizenships.