Kemal ÇEBER |GOVERNOR OF GAZIANTEP

He was born in 1972 in Artova district of Tokat province. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Tokat and graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences in 1993.

In the civil administration, which he started as a district governor candidate in 1994; He served as Burdur-Karamanlı, Tunceli-Hozat, Burdur-Gölhisar District Governor and Karabük Governor, respectively.

He worked as a Legal Counsel for one year at the Ministry of Interior, and was appointed as the Chief Civil Inspector in 2007. After working as Chief Inspector for seven years, he was assigned to the General Directorate of Security in 2014 and worked with the General Director of Security in person until he was appointed as the Governor on 21 June 2017.

He worked in England for nine months in 1996 and in the United States of America for a year in 2013, in different fields, especially in Public Administration. During his time in the United States, he conducted studies on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and prepared research reports.

In addition to his studies abroad, he compared the disaster management systems applied in developed countries with the disaster management system applied in our country with his master's thesis on "Financial Disaster Management", which he prepared at Süleyman Demirel University, and within this framework, he presented solutions to urbanization problems and financial management of disasters. and took an active role in the preparation processes of the draft law by participating in the commission work of the Disaster and Emergency Law prepared in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey with his expertise on this subject.

carried out in the Prime Ministry; ÇEBER, who also took part in the projects of Determination of Public Service Standards, Improvement of Public Services and Reducing Bureaucracy, has articles published on different topics, especially crisis, disaster and emergency management, and urban transformation.

He attended courses, seminars and similar trainings in the field of Public Administration; He made short-term professional study visits to different countries.

He was appointed as the Governor of Rize with the Presidential Decision dated 26.10.2018 and numbered 2018/202 published in the Official Gazette dated 27.10.2018 and numbered 30578, and carried out this duty until 07.11.2018 - 26.06.2023.
 
He was appointed as the Governor of Gaziantep with the Presidential Decree dated 25.06.2023 and numbered 2023/312, published in the Official Gazette dated 26.06.2023 and numbered 32233.

Gaziantep Governor Kemal CEBER is married and has two children.

He is fluent in English.