Yaprak Baltacioğlu
{{Short description|Canadian public servant, lawyer and professor}}
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| office = Secretary of the Treasury Board
| term_start = November 12, 2012
| term_end = April 3, 2018
| primeminister = Stephen Harper
Justin Trudeau
| predecessor = Marc O'Sullivan
| successor = Peter Wallace
| office2 = Deputy Minister of Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities
| term_start2 = July 2009
| term_end2 = October 2012
| minister2 = John Baird
Chuck Strahl
Denis Lebel
| office3 = Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food
| term_start3 = March 4, 2007
| term_end3 = June 2009
| minister3 = Chuck Strahl
Gerry Ritz
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| birth_place = Ankara, Turkey
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Yaprak Baltacioğlu {{postnominals|country=CAN|CM}} (born 1959) is a retired Canadian public servant, lawyer, and professor of Turkish descent. She has held senior leadership positions in the Canadian public service, serving as Secretary of the Treasury Board from 2012 to 2018. Baltacioğlu retired from the public service in 2018,{{cite web |last1=May |first1=Kathryn |title=Treasury Board's top bureaucrat leaving public service |url=https://ipolitics.ca/2018/01/24/treasury-boards-top-bureaucrat-leaving-public-service/ |website=iPolitics |access-date=24 October 2019}} and was appointed as the twelfth Chancellor of Carleton University in 2018.{{cite web |title=New Chancellor: Yaprak Baltacioğlu |url=https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/new-chancellor/ |website=Carleton University |access-date=24 October 2019}}
She is also on the faculty at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto where she teaches graduate courses.{{cite web |title=Yaprak Baltacioglu |url=https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/profile/baltacioglu-yaprak/ |website=Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy |publisher=University of Toronto |access-date=24 October 2019}}
Life and career
Baltacioğlu was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. She obtained a law degree at Istanbul University before immigrating to Canada in 1980 at the age of 21.{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Barry |title=Immigrant takes over at Ag Canada |url=https://www.producer.com/2007/05/immigrant-takes-over-at-ag-canada/ |website=The Western Producer |publisher=Western Producer Publications Limited Partnership |access-date=24 October 2019 |date=3 May 2007}} After settling in Canada, Baltacioğlu pursued a master's in public administration at Carleton University, which introduced her to a career in the federal public service, beginning as a term employee at the Public Service Commission shortly after earning her graduate degree in 1989.{{cite web |title=Yaprak Baltacıoğlu - Faculty of Public Affairs |url=https://carleton.ca/fpa/story/yaprak-baltacioglu/ |website=Carleton University |access-date=24 October 2019}}
Baltacioğlu eventually rose to prominent leadership positions across government and was appointed as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's first female Deputy Minister in 2007. She later served as Deputy Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities from 2007 to 2012 before being appointed Secretary of the Treasury Board, a role which she would fulfill until 2018.
Baltacioğlu was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2021.{{Cite web|last=Canada|first=Governor General of|title=Governor General Announces 61 New Appointments to the Order of Canada|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/governor-general-announces-61-new-appointments-to-the-order-of-canada-819394524.html|access-date=2021-01-01|website=www.newswire.ca|language=en}}
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Category:Canadian people of Turkish descent
Category:Canadian women lawyers
Category:Carleton University alumni
Category:Chancellors of Carleton University
Category:Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni
Category:Turkish emigrants to Canada
Category:Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Category:Academics from Ottawa
Category:Members of the Order of Canada