Board Members
Burhan DEMİROK - Chairman of the Board (Republic Of Turkey Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry)
Burhan DEMİROK - Chairman of the Board (Republic Of Turkey Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry)
Mr. Burhan Kerimok was born in Ankara in 1967. He completed his high school education at Çubuk High School in 1983 and graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture in 1988. He started his career as a civil servant in the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Forestry. Then, respectively, He served as an Engineer in Yazıhan District of Malatya, Directorate of Agriculture, as an Engineering Department Chief of Malatya Agricultural Vocational High School, as an Deputy Director of Ankara Home Economics and Food Laborant at Vocational High School, as an Engineer of Ankara Provincial Director of Agriculture, as an Directorate at the Agricultural Tool and Machine Test Center, as the Head of the Coordination Department of the General Directorate of Agricultural Production Development (TÜGEM), and the Head of the Agricultural Supports Department of the General Directorate of Agricultural Reform. While He was Deputy General Manager of Livestock Directorate in 2014, he also worked as Deputy General Manager of Agricultural Reform in 2016. After working as Deputy General Manager of Crop Production Directorate for 2 years in 2018, he was appointed as Deputy General Manager of Livestock Directorate in 2020. Mr. Burhan Kerimok has been working as the General Manager of Agricultural Reform of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry since September 2022. At the same time, he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Insurance Pool (TARSİM) as of September, 2022. He also attended domestic and international trainings on Rural Development, agricultural supports, agricultural organizations, livestock, agricultural insurances and various programs related to agriculture. He is married, has two children and speaks English.
Fatma Ebru GENÇOSMANOĞLU - Deputy Chairman of the Board (Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency)
Fatma Ebru GENÇOSMANOĞLU - Deputy Chairman of the Board (Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency)
Mrs. Fatma Ebru Gençosmanoğlu was born in Ankara in 1972. She graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations in 1994. She started to work as an Assistant Specialist at the Undersecretariat of Treasury (currently, the Ministry of Treasury and Finance) General Directorate of Insurance. She received a master's degree from the University of Illinois, Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, USA between 2000-2002 with a government scholarship. Moreover ; She completed her master's thesis in Ankara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Economics in 2007. She took part in regulating the legislation on both non-life insurance and life insurance, monitoring the implementation, providing the necessary updates and ensuring coordination with the relevant stakeholders. As the representative of T.C. Ministry of Treasury and Finance, she was appointed as a Member of the Assurance Account Board of Directors between 2004-2006 and as a Member of the Actuarial Exam Organizing Committee between 2010-2021. She worked as a project member or project manager in studies such as the establishment of the Catastrophe Insurance Pool, the establishment of the Insurance Information and Monitoring Center, carrying out the Actuarial Project to meet the actuarial needs of our country, and the preparation of the First National Mortality and Morbidity Tables. In 2020, she served as the Responsible Personnel during the establishment process of the Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency. She transferred her knowledge and experience in the field of insurance to the young people with the courses she gave at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University School of Banking and Insurance between 2016-2022 and endeavored to provide a trained workforce for the insurance and private pension sectors. Mrs. Gencosmanoğlu, who was among the first assistant experts to be employed after the establishment of the General Directorate of Insurance in the formerly T.C. Undersecretariat of Treasury, started to work as the Vice President at the T.C. Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency on 05/09/2022.
Bekir ENGÜRÜLÜ - Board Member (Republic Of Turkey Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry)
Bekir ENGÜRÜLÜ - Board Member (Republic Of Turkey Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry)
Bekir Engürülü was born in Zile, Tokat in 1967 and graduated from Söke Technical High School of Agriculture in 1985 and from the Agricultural Machinery Department of the Faculty of Agriculture at Selçuk University in 1991. During his 35-year tenure at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, he worked in the positions of technical staff, agricultural engineer, district manager, branch manager and department head. From 2011 until January 2020, he functioned as the Head of Agricultural Insurance and Natural Disasters Department at the General Directorate of Agricultural Reform. He was directly involved in the drafting of the Turkish Agricultural Insurance Law. He has also been acting as a decision-maker in relation to the agricultural insurance system for 14 years. He is experienced in Agricultural Insurance, Risk Management in Agriculture, Global Climate Change, Agricultural Machinery and In-Service Training. He is the co-author of 22 published books that are used in in-service training. He offers the “Agricultural Insurance” Course at the Vocational School of Banking and Insurance at Hacı Bayram Veli University. Bekir Engürülü is married and has two children and he speaks English. He has been serving as Acting Deputy General Director of Agricultural Reform at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry since January 2020. He has been named a member of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Insurance Pool (TARSİM) on 10 February 2020.
Barış TAŞKESEN - Board Member (Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency)
Barış TAŞKESEN - Board Member (Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency)
In 2009, he graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Business Administration (Major) and Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Minor). Between 2017-2019, he completed his master's degree abroad in the University of Illinois, Gies College of Business, MS in Finance program. In 2010, he started his career as an Assistant Insurance Supervision Specialist at the Undersecretariat of Treasury Insurance Supervision Board. He was appointed as an Insurance Audit Specialist subsequent to succeeding in the qualification exam held in 2014. After the establishment of the Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency, he was appointed as the Head of the Department of Intermediaries and Specialized Institutions in 2021, and he still continues this duty. Since 2020, he has been giving trainings on basic insurance accounting and technical provisions at the Turkish Insurance Institute Foundation. As the representative of the institution, he has been a Member of the General Assembly of the Tax Council and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Insurance Pool since 07.11.2022.
Z. Selva EREN - Board Member (Insurance, Reinsurance and Pension Association of Turkey)
Z. Selva EREN - Board Member (Insurance, Reinsurance and Pension Association of Turkey)
Selva Eren was born in Istanbul in 1975. She graduated from the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University in 2000. She pursued her Master’s degree at San Diego State University from 2001 to 2003. She began her career in the United States and continued as an entrepreneur between 2004 and 2008. She entered the insurance industry in 2009 and specialized in reinsurance. Accordingly, she founded the Rönesans Reasürans ve Sigorta Brokerlik A.Ş. She served as a Board Member of the International Competition and Technology Association between 2016-2018. In 2017, she became the founding partner and board member of the Clean Energy Agency. Selva Eren was appointed as the CEO of Türk Reasürans A.Ş. by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance on September 6, 2019 and still serves as the Board Member and the CEO of Türk Reasürans. Selva Eren is also a Board Member at the Agricultural Insurance Pool.
Sibel ŞERİFOĞLU - Board Member (Union of Chambers of agriculture of Turkey)
Sibel ŞERİFOĞLU - Board Member (Union of Chambers of agriculture of Turkey)
She was born in Çorum in 1977. In 1999, she graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation. She completed her master's degree in Ankara University, Institute of Science, Department of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation in 2002. In 1999, she started to work in the Union of Chambers of Agriculture of Turkey, in the Directorate of Organization and Chambers, where communication between the Chambers of Agriculture and farmers is provided. She still works as a Technical Consultant in the Technical Services Board Presidency of the Union of Chambers of Agriculture of Turkey. She mainly works on credit utilization in the agricultural sector, farmers' loan debts, agricultural land use and protection, GMO products and production, farmer's log and farmer certificate, hot climate cereals, oilseed crops, tubers and root crops, natural disasters. She has been in the system as the representative of TZOB since the preparation of the Agricultural Insurance Law and has been working on agricultural insurance practices for 17 years. He has been a Member of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Insurance Pool (TARSİM) since January 26, 2022.
Serpil GÜNAL - Board Member and General Manager (Agricultural Insurance Pool Management Company)
Serpil GÜNAL - Board Member and General Manager (Agricultural Insurance Pool Management Company)
Serpil Günal was born in Ankara in 1974. After graduating from TED Ankara College, she received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Faculty of Science at the Middle East Technical University in 1998. The same year, she finished Ziraat Bank School of Banking. She received her MBA from Atılım University in 2006. She started her career in the Commercial Loans Unit of Ziraat Bank in 1999. She was appointed to the Retail Marketing Department where she functioned between 2001 and 2012. She worked as the Head of Retail Marketing Department and Insurance and Other Agency Products Manager in the Bancassurance Unit (April 2012-May 2013), and as Assistant General Manager of Distribution at Ziraat Bank and Bancassurance Manager in the Bank Insurance Unit (May 2013 – January 2017). She served as Assistant General Manager of Operation at Ziraat Sigorta and Ziraat Emeklilik from January 2017, and Assistant General Manager of Technical Affairs from August 2018 until January 2020. Serpil Günal has been named the General Manager of Tarım Sigortaları Havuz İşletmesi A.Ş. (TARSİM Management Company) on 13 January 2020, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of Agricultural Insurance Pool (TARSİM).