He was born in 1961 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration at Istanbul University in 1982. He received his master’s degree in 1984 and his doctorate degree in 1991 from the Marketing Department at Istanbul University. He worked in the private sector between 1986 and 1996. He worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Business Administration of Kırıkkale University between 1996 and 1999. He continued his academic career at the Department of Business Administration of Eskişehir Osmangazi University between 1999 and 2012, where he became associate professor in 2002 and a full professor in 2007.
Prof. Dr. Ömer Torlak has many articles published in national and international journals, as well as books and book chapters on issues of marketing and business ethics, and many papers presented at national and international congresses and symposiums. His publications have received numerous citations.
He served as the Rector of KTO Karatay University between 2012 and 2015 and the President of the Competition Agency between 2015 and 2019. He was a member of Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) Science Board in the period of 2016-2018. Prof. Dr. Torlak, who still continues his academic studies at the Faculty of Business Administration of Istanbul Ticaret University, has been serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration since 2020. Prof. Dr. Torlak, was appointed as the Acting Rector by the Board of Trustees of Istanbul Ticaret University on January 19th, 2023.
He is married and has three children.
