İbrahim Kalın (born 15 September 1971) is a Turkish bureaucrat and academic who is the current director of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT).

[1] An academic specialising in Islamic philosophy, Kalın received his doctorate under the supervision of Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

[4] From 2002 to 2005, he was a faculty member at the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

[5] He is a founding member and former director (2005–2009) of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research based in Ankara, Turkey.

On December 11 2014, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Kalın would be the first official Turkish Presidential Press Secretary.