İbrahim Hakan Karataş
Professor in Educational Administration
İbrahim Hakan Karataş completed his undergraduate studies in Turkish Language and Literature at Boğaziçi University in 1998 and earned a master’s degree from the same department in 2001. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Department of Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning, and Economics at Marmara University. Between 1998 and 2002, he taught English, Turkish, and Turkish Language and Literature at private and public schools. In 1999, he served as a research assistant at Kars Kafkas University. From 2004 to 2010, he worked in the private sector and participated in textbook writing committees of the Board of Education at the Ministry of National Education. Between 2012 and 2013, he completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Northern Iowa in the United States. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Educational Administration at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Istanbul Medeniyet University.
At Istanbul Medeniyet University, he has held administrative roles such as Head of the Department of Educational Sciences, Chair of the Department of Educational Administration, Core Courses Coordinator, and Deputy Director of the Continuing Education Center. He currently serves as the Coordinator of the Teaching Development Center (ÖGEM) at the university.
Dr. Karataş has served as a member or advisor in various national and international civil society organizations. He is the founder of the School Heads Association and the international educator network, Leading Innovation for Educators (LIFE). From 2019 to 2022, he was the founding coordinator of the Educational Policy Research Center (EPAM), operating under the İLKE Foundation. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board for the School Administrators Association and as Vice Chairman of the Board for the Association of Education Administrators and Supervisors (EYEDDER).
His academic research focuses on school leadership, educational administration, the internationalization of higher education, educational policies, and civil society organizations. In addition to numerous academic articles and book chapters, he has authored textbooks in Turkish, Turkish Language and Literature, and Language and Expression for primary, middle, and high school levels. Dr. Karataş has also published four original books and translated four others.
Currently, he is a visiting researcher at Makerere University, the oldest university in East Africa, in Uganda, where he is conducting research on the internationalization of higher education and educational diplomacy.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş completed his undergraduate education in Educational Sciences at Istanbul University (2009) and his doctorate in Educational Administration at Michigan State University (2014). Bellibaş, who became an Associate Professor in 2017, became a Professor in the field of Educational Sciences in 2024. Prof. Bellibaş currently works for the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Prof. Bellibaş has more than 50 articles published in journals indexed in respected national and international directories. Prof. Bellibaş's research area is educational administration.

Prof. Bilal CANKIR, has completed his undergrad, graduate and PhD. degrees in Business Administration and Tourism departments. He has studied in Organizational Behavior and Positive Organizational Behavior subjects during his education. He also did a PhD study in at UT Dallas about burnout and organizational citizenship behavior. He was worked as Research Assistant in Kirklareli University from 2010 to 2017. He was worked an Assistant Professor in Istanbul Medeniyet University, Business Department 2017 to 2021. Since January 2021, He is currently working as a Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Healthcare Management at the same university. His active research topics are Positive Organizational Behavior, Management and Burnout. He serves Deputy Director of School of Civil Aviation and Member of the Board of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Istanbul Medeniyet University. He is also Working Group Members at COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) on the Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL-CA21118), Behavioral Next Generation in Wireless Networks for Cyber Security (CA22104) and Cultural Expertise Junior Network (K-Peritia-CA22101). He is Editor of the Journal of Behavior at Work. Bilal CANKIR has numerous peer-reviewed papers and conference articles.

I obtained my PhD in Educational Technology at Bahçeşehir University, in 2018. I am currently working in the fields of educational technology, teacher education, researcher education, research with children, research methods in the social sciences, educational research philosophy and educational sciences philosophy.