Halil İbrahim Akça is the Turkish ambassador to Brazil, and was the 11th Secretary General of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).

Akça graduated with an undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1988.

In 1994 he received a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Delaware.

[2] He has published several papers on government economic policy and planning based on Turkish data.

Akça led the Economic Cooperation Organization as Secretary General from August 2015 through July 2018.