constituency predecessor successor birth_place party office primeminister birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
gaziantep 2011 -rrb- -lrb- 2007 , june 2015 -rrb- batman -lrb- kemal unakıtan ali babacan ali babacan gercüş , turkey justice and development party minister economy member of the grand national assembly of finance minister of state responsible for the recep tayyip erdoğan ahmet davutoğlu recep tayyip erdoğan 1 january 1967 1 may 2009 28 august 2007 22 july 2007 annalise -lrb- 2010 -- present -rrb- granwald -lrb- 1999 -- 2009 -rrb- esra kara mehmet Şimşek -lrb- cropped -rrb- . jpg mehmet Şimşek
 1 may 2009 mehmet Şimşek ankara university university of exeter
mehmet Şimşek

mehmet Şimşek -lrb- born 1 january 1967 -rrb- is a turkish politician and economist who has been the minister of finance of turkey since 1 may 2009 , serving in the cabinets of prime ministers of recep tayyip erdoğan and ahmet davutoğlu .
as a member of the justice and development party , he was elected as a member of parliament for gaziantep in the 2007 general election and for batman in the 2011 general election .
in prime minister erdoğan 's second cabinet , Şimşek became a minister of state responsible for the economy upon his election as an mp .
in 2009 , he became the minister of finance .
he retained his position in erdoğan 's third cabinet and the first cabinet of ahmet davutoğlu , who took over as prime minister in 2014 .
as finance minister , Şimşek has formulated fiscal policy which has helped turkey recover strongly from the global financial crisis of 2008 .
he has also undertaken far reaching reforms founding the tax audit board , simplifying tax regulations , enhancing taxpayers ' rights , and reducing the shadow economy .
