Born on January 1, 1968, in Bayburt, Naci Ağbal graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration. Mr. Ağbal completed his master’s degree in Business Administration General Business Management (MBA) Programme at the University of Exeter, UK. 

He served as Inspector, Deputy Chairman of the Inspection Board, and Head of Department at the General Directorate of Revenues at the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Ağbal, who served as the General Directorate of Budget and Financial Control between 2006 and 2009 and as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance between 2009 and 2015, served as a Board Member of TÜPRAŞ between 2004 and 2006, as a Board Member of PETKİM A.Ş. in 2006, as a Board Member of Turkish Airlines (THY) A.Ş. between 2006 and 2015, and as a Board Member of Vakıf Katılım Bankası A.Ş. between 2018 and 2021.

Serving as a member of the Council of Higher Education between 2008 and 2015 and then between 2018 and 2020, Naci Ağbal was a member of the Board of Trustees of International Ahmed Yesevi University between 2008 and 2015 and a member of the Council of Turkish-Japanese Science and Technology University between 2019 and 2020.

 Mr. Ağbal, who served as an MP for the 25th and 26th terms in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, also was the Minister of Finance of the 64th and 65th Governments. Served as the Chairman of the Presidential Strategy and Budget between 2018 and 2020, Mr. Ağbal was further in charge as the Governor of the Central Bank between November 2020 and March 2021. Naci Ağbal has been serving as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kazancı Holding since July 2022, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aksa Energy since July 2022, and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aksa Natural Gas since May 2023