Haluk Dinçer


Haluk Dinçer is a Turkish business executive who spent 30 years at Sabancı Holding, serving as an Executive Board Member between 2002 and 2025 and as Financial Services Group President from 2020 to 2025. He left his executive positions in March 2025. As of 2025, he serves on the boards of Aksigorta, Agesa and Medisa, acts as a strategic advisor to companies across various sectors, and manages his own investment portfolio in public and private assets.

Early life and education

Dinçer attended Saint-Joseph French High School in Istanbul before going to the United States. He received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 and a Master of Business Administration in 1988, both from the University of Michigan.

Career

Haluk Dinçer started work in 1985 as a project engineer at General Motors Global Technical Center in Detroit. He moved to the Sabancı Group in 1995. He was appointed as Food and Retail Group President in 2004 and Retail and Insurance Group President in 2007.
Upon the reorganization of the group in June 2016, Dinçer was named Insurance Group President and later, in April 2020, Financial Services Group President.
In this capacity, he served as Chairman of the board of Aksigorta, Agesa and Exsa, and sat on the boards of Brisa — the Group’s joint venture with Bridgestone — as well as Tursa and Ankara Enternasyonel Otelcilik, both operating in partnership with Hilton Hotels & Resorts.
Dinçer spent 30 years at Sabancı Holding, where he served as an Executive Board Member between 2002 and 2025 and as Financial Services Group President from 2020 to 2025.
He left his executive positions in March 2025. Since then, he has continued his professional career as a board member of Aksigorta, Agesa and Medisa, as a strategic advisor to companies in various sectors, and as manager of his own portfolio of public and private investments.

Non-business activities

Dinçer served as President of the Turkish Industry and Business Association from June 2014 until January 2015, and as Vice-President from January 2010 until June 2014.
Dinçer was President of the Turkish-American Business Council, operating under the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey, from September 2008 until October 2014.
In June 2010 and November 2011, he represented Turkey at the G-20 Business Summits held in Toronto and Cannes, respectively.
From 2015 until 2018, Dinçer participated in the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution.
He served on the board of the Global Relations Forum, an independent platform dealing with international affairs, from 2018 to 2021.
He was a member of the Geneva Association, the leading insurance think tank, from 2019 to 2025.