Ömer Fatih SAYAN was born in 10.06.1977 in Istanbul.
Sayan first started his career in 1995 at Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, after completing his university education he went on to work in private sectors of Turkey, Germany and United States of America. His work there focused on chip production, mobile phone design and R&D.
Sayan, having participated in Silicon Valley Initiative to carry out a work on entrepreneurship, gave lectures at various universities in Turkey and Germany on IT Law and New Trends in Informatics. He established the Istanbul – Turkey local committee of EESTEC European Union Students of Electrical Engineering. He is a member of IEEE and Ankara Branch of EMO. He worked as the Chairman of Turkish – German Committee on Fellowship and Türkische Gesprachkreis of Osnabrück Germany. He worked as the vice chairman of Mimar Sinan Association and as the member of supervisory board. He served as the Head of Committee of Turkey regarding WSIS World Information Society Conferences. He took the role of coordinator for Artificial Intelligence Turkey Conference. Currently, Sayan is the President of USOM (National Cyber Incidents Response Center) and the Chairman of 5G Turkey Forum.
Ömer Fatih Sayan has many published articles in various conferences and scientific journals.
Between 2007 and 2014, he served as the adviser and principal adviser at Prime Minister’s Office.
In January 2014, he was assigned as a board member of Information Technologies and Communication Authority. From August 2015 to July 2018, he served as the President of Information Technologies and Communication Authority.
Dr. Sayan is currently serving as the Deputy Minister at the Turkish Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure since July 2018.