Süleyman ELBAN
He was born on June 6, 1969 in Kırşehir. He completed his primary education in Germany and Kırşehir and his secondary education in Kırşehir. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration in 1992. After working as a research assistant at Abant Izzet Baysal University and as an Assistant Specialist of the Prime Ministry State Personnel Presidency, he started his career as an administrative governor in Eskişehir in 1994.
He was in England for language and public administration education for eight months between 1995-1996. After serving as Deputy Governor of Edirne-Havsa, District Governor of Samsun-Yakakent and Elazığ-Karakoçan, he was appointed as the branch manager of the General Directorate of Local Administrations in 2003.
He served as Head of Department and Deputy General Manager at the General Directorate of Local Administrations.
There are two postgraduate studies in the field of Local Administrations at the Institute of Social Sciences in Fırat University in 2003, and in the field of PPP in Public Administration and European Union in 2008 at Portsmouth University (England).
During his 13 years at the General Directorate of Local Administrations, he took part in the works of the laws and other secondary and sub-regulations prepared within the scope of the reform of the local administrations. He worked as an educator in many educational activities organized in the field of local administrations. He has several articles published in this field.
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He wrote the books listed below.
Municipal Revenues Law (August 2012),
Municipal Law Practices (March 2013),
Municipal Legislation Gold Guide with Questions and Answers (October 2014) and
Income and Expenditures of Local Administrations (May 2015).
He is married with two children and speaks English well.
He served as the Governor of Bilecik with the Decree of the Council of Ministers dated 30.05.2016 and numbered 2016/8864.
He served as Governor of Ağrı with the Decree of the Council of Ministers dated 13.06.2017 and numbered 2017/10458.
He was appointed as the Governor of Adana with the Presidential Decree dated 20.06.2020 and numbered 2020/274. He started his duty on 19.06.2020.