Emin Dedeoğlu graduated from Middle East Technical University with a BA degree in Political Sciences and Public Administration in 1983. He holds a MA degree in Economics from Northeastern University.

Dedeoğlu started to work in the Undersecretariat of Treasury in 1983. He worked in the Privatization Agency as the department head from 1990 to 1992. Dedeoğlu worked in Undersecretariat of Treasury Directorate General for Public Finance between 1997 and 1999. He worked at the World Bank from 1999 to 2003; as a Deputy Managing Director from between 2000 and 2002 and as a Senior Consultant to the Managing Director until 2003.

Emin Dedeoğlu, worked at TEPAV between 2004 and March 2017 as a Director of the Governance Studies.