Mr. Güleç was born on 12 September 1965 in Sivas. He graduated from the International Relations Department of the Faculty of Economics at İstanbul University in 1988.
He worked at the Ministry of Transport between 1989 and 1991. In 1991, he began his career as an assistant auditor at the Court of Accounts, where he later served as auditor, chief auditor, and senior auditor. He successfully completed advanced English language training at Oxford Aspect School of Language and beginner-level Japanese at Tokyo Hachioji International Centre. He contributed to the writing of the Analytical Analyses Section of the Court of Accounts Financial Audit Guidelines, prepared as part of a European Union (EU) Twinning Project. Throughout his career, he represented the Court of Accounts at numerous international meetings and seminars, served as a trainer and project leader on topics related to financial audit, performance audit, and the judicial functions of courts of accounts in foreign countries, and presented papers on the audit and judiciary functions of the Court of Accounts at various international meetings.
He was elected as a member of the Court of Accounts by the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (GNAT) at its 110th session on 25 June 2009. While serving as a member of the Court of Accounts, he was elected as a Justice of the Constitutional Court on 13 March 2015, following a decision by the Plenary of the GNAT from amongst three candidates nominated by the Court of Accounts, and he took office on 17 March 2015.
Pursuant to Article 158 of the Constitution of the Republic of Türkiye, Article 12 of Code no. 6216 on the Establishment and the Rules of Procedure of the Constitutional Court of 30 March 2011, and Article 4 of Law no. 2247 on the Establishment and the Functioning of the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes of 12 June 1979, he was elected as the President of the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes on 16 January 2024 and began his tenure on 30 January 2024.
Mr. Rıdvan Güleç, who is also a certified public accountant and independent auditor, is proficient in English, and has intermediate proficiency in Arabic and German. He is married with two children.