Dr Hasan Maral has been working as Secretary General of the Karacadag Development Agency (TRC2 Region) since 2015 and his works are focused primarily on regional development to raise a common understanding of development in the region by promoting cooperation between public, private sectors and the non-governmental organizations, to prepare regional development plans with a participatory and strategic approach and to implement them effectively, to enforce local capacity and increase productivity, to raise competitiveness and investment attraction of the region by improving the investment climate, in order to facilitate a sustainable social and economic development. He graduated from Dicle University, Faculty of Agriculture in 2003 and started his career at Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock as an agriculture engineer. In 2012, he got his doctorate degree from Çukurova University and also graduated from Anadolu University, Department of Economics in 2014.