Kadir Bal (born 11 January 1966) is a Turkish bureaucrat, diplomat, and engineer.
He is currently a Board Member at SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş., and was previously the Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry of the Economy of the Republic of Turkey.
The male head of the Bal family, Osman, previously worked as a rural taxi driver, and currently owns a glassware store, where Kadir helped his family by working in their store and shining shoes in his youth.
Bal entered the Ministry of Economy, then the Undersecretariat of Treasury and Foreign Trade in 1991, and served as a foreign trade expert until 1997, when he served as Deputy Commercial Counsellor in the Embassy of Turkey, Ottawa until 2000.
After briefly serving as Acting General Director of Agreements and as General Director of Imports,[1] he was the Deputy Undersecretary[2][3] of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Turkey from April 2017 until his retirement from public service in April 2020.