Having graduated from the Translation&Interpreting Department of Boğaziçi University in 2007, Bahadır Çakmak is currently studying an LL.M degree in the field of corporate governance at the University of Law, the UK. He began his professional career at PwC Türkiye’s Marketing Department in 2007. After working for DLA Piper law firm between 2014-2015, he started to work at Alternatif Bank Corporate Affairs Office in May 2015. He was appointed to the Manager role in February 2017 at the same department. Çakmak served as a Corporate Governance Consultant for United Arab Bank, the UAE, for some time during 2022 as part of a temporary secondment. He was promoted as the Head of Corporate Affairs at Alternatif Bank as of October 2022.