Mustafa Varank (pronounced [mustafäh väränk]; 1 January 1976) is a Turkish politician, bureaucrat and academic who previously served as the Minister of Industry and Technology.

[1] He was born in 1976 in the Of District of the Black Sea city of Trabzon.

In 1999, he completed his higher education in Middle East Technical University (Ankara), where he earned degrees in Political Science and Public Administration, after which he began his tenure in the United States.

[2] There, he proceeded to Florida State University and Florida Atlantic University College of Engineering and Computer Science where he worked as a researcher and systems engineer.

He left Florida to then earn his master's degree at Pervasive Technology Institute of Indiana University Bloomington.