His father was Sakızlı Mehmed Remzi Efendi, the President of the Istanbul Municipality Council (İstanbul Şehremaneti Meclis Reisi).

[4] In 1908, he served as the Minister of Education in the 7th Said Pasha cabinet, which was established the day before the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era, and as the Minister of Education and Internal Affairs in the Mehmed Kâmil Pasha cabinet.

Hakki Pasha also spent considerable amounts of time in London between February 1913 and the outbreak of World War I, working on negotiations concerning the Berlin-Baghdad Railway and a settlement for the Second Balkan War.

[6] During that visit, Hakki Pasha met with King George V.[7] He returned to Istanbul when World War I began.

His body was brought to Istanbul and buried in the Yahya Efendi Lodge.

İbrahim Hakkı Pasha, who had works in the field of science as well as being a statesman, wrote several textbooks.