Nuri Okutan graduated from Gönen Anatolian Teacher Training High School. In 1986, he graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Business Administration. He completed his master's degree in the field of Management-Organization in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uludağ University. After he worked as planning specialist for 6 months in 1986, he was nominated to District Governorate in Bitlis, acting as Deputy Governor of Amasya-Taşova, District Governor of Bursa-Harmancık, Van-Bahçesaray, Erzurum-Narman, Van-Bahçesaray and Gümüşhane-Kelkit. General Manager, in 1996, served as Branch Manager and Head of Department. Nuri OKUTAN served as the Head of Department and Deputy General Manager of the General Directorate of Personnel in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.