1996’da Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi/ Fen- Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü’nden mezun oldum. Yüksek lisansımı 2003’de “Afyon ve Yöresi Halk Bilimi Ürünlerinde Eski Türk İnançlarının İzleri” doktoramı ise 2013 yılında “Kütahya İli Türbe ve Yatırları Etrafında Oluşan İnanç ve Uygulamalar” isimli çalışmasmla Balıkesir Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Ana Bilim Dalında tamamladım.  2000-2004 yılları arasında Millî Eğitim Bakanlığında Türkçe öğretmeni olarak,  2004-2015 yılları arasında da Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Türk Dili Bölümünde okutmanlık, 2013-2015 Eğitim Öğretim yılında, Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Uluslararası Türk-Kazak Üniversitesi Filoloji Fakültesinde öğretim görevliliği, 2015 yılından itibaren de Kütahya Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Fen- Edebiyat Fakültesi/ Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümünde Doktor Öğretim Üyesi, 2018 yılında doçent kadrosuna atandım. 

1984’de Uludağ Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi İngiliz Dili Eğitimi bölümünden mezun oldu. 2002’de Marmara Üniversitesi Avrupa Topluluğu Enstitüsü, Avrupa Birliği Siyaseti ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nde “A Comparative Analysis of Baltic States’ Membership to the EU” adlı teziyle yüksek Lisans yapmıştır. 2006’da Marmara Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü’nde Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi ABD’de “ Kasım Gülek, hayatı ve Siyasi Faaliyetleri” adlı teziyle Doktorasını tamamladı. 2020’de Anadolu Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi/ Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nde 2. Lisans eğitimini tamamladı. Bu süreler zarfında, çeşitli kolejler ve Yeditepe Üniversitesi’nde İngilizce dersleri verdi. 2000 yılından itibaren Marmara Üniversitesi’nde çalışmaktadır. Çeşitli Avrupa Birliği projeleri için saha çalışmalarında bulunmak üzere uzun süreli yurtdışı çalışmaları yapmıştır. İyi derecede İngilizce bilmekte ve 6 editörlü, 2 de bireysel olmak üzere 8 kitabı bulunmaktadır.

Profile of Dr. A. Varadaraj
Dr. A. Varadaraj is a distinguished academician and researcher currently serving as a Professor in Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management at the Department of Management Studies, Alliance University, Bengaluru. With over two decades of diverse professional experience spanning teaching, manufacturing, administration, and marketing, Dr. Varadaraj has established himself as a prominent figure in academia and research.
Academic Credentials
Dr. Varadaraj holds an impressive array of academic qualifications, including:
• MBA
• M.Phil.
• Ph.D.
• Postgraduate in Tourism Management
• Postgraduate in Public Relations
Professional Experience
With 22 years of experience, Dr. Varadaraj has contributed significantly to academia and industry. His global exposure includes working and visiting countries such as Muscat, Dubai, and the UAE, where he gained insights into international business and management practices.
Academic Contributions
Dr. Varadaraj has made substantial contributions to the field of management through:
• Publishing numerous research articles in Scopus-indexed journals.
• Authoring books and presenting research papers at national and international seminars.
• Serving as a member of editorial and review boards for several prestigious international journals.
Editorial and Review Board Memberships
Dr. Varadaraj is actively involved in the academic community through his editorial and review roles, including:
• Editorial Review Member:
o Proceedings of The International Research Education & Training Center (ISSN: 2613-5817; E-ISSN: 2613-5825)
o The Caucasus Economic and Social Analysis Journal of Southern Caucasus (ISSN: 2298-0946, E-ISSN: 1987-6114)
• Review Board Member:
o International Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology (IJMET), New York
• Editorial Board Member:
o International Journal of Law, Education, Social and Sports Studies (IJLESS)
o Journal of ELT and Education (JEE)
o China-USA Business Review (ISSN 1537-1514) and Chinese Business Review (ISSN 1537-1506)
o Journal of Business Findings (JOBF)
o Ukrainian Scientific Professional Journal: Economic Bulletin - Series: Finance, Accounting, Taxation
• Advisory Committee Member:
o International Journal for Trends in Engineering & Technology (IJTET) (ISSN 2349-9303)
• Associate Reviewer:
o Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InformingSciJ) (Online ISSN: 1521-4672, Print ISSN: 1547-9684)
• International Board of Reviewers:
o Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM) (Online ISSN: 1555-1237, Print ISSN: 1555-1229)
Professional Engagements
Dr. Varadaraj has conducted and organized various self-development and motivational programs for young graduates, helping them enhance their professional and personal growth.
Areas of Expertise
Dr. Varadaraj specializes in:
• Human Resource Management
• Organizational Behaviour
• Talent Development
• Strategic Management
• Industrial Relations
• Sustainability
• Entrepreneurship
• Training
• Organizational Development
Conclusion
Dr. A. Varadaraj’s extensive academic contributions, editorial engagements, and international exposure have solidified his reputation as a respected and influential figure in the global academic and research community. His dedication to advancing knowledge in organizational behaviour and human resource management continues to inspire students, researchers, and professionals alike.

Bartosz Jóźwik, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of International Economics at the Institute of Economics and Finance at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland. Earlier, he held academic positions at various institutions, including at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame in the USA and at the Faculty of Economics at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. His research interests focus on issues surrounding European economic integration, growth and economic development in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and environmental economics. He is the author of dozens of scientific publications published in recognized journals and publishing houses. He has collaborated with many scientific centers around the world. Among them are: University of Vienna, University of Cambridge, National University of Laos, and IBS Hyderabad ICFAI University in India.

Kristina Velichkovska, Uluslararası Balkan Üniversitesi, Üsküp Ekonomi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi'nde yardımcı doçenttir. Ekonomi alanında doktora ve MBA derecesine sahiptir. Her iki ilgi alanı da makroekonomi, gelir eşitsizliği ve kurumsal finanstır. Ekonomi ve örgütsel bilimler alanında birçok bilimsel makalenin yazarı ve ortak yazarıdır.

Master of Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics; Master of Economics; PhD in Economics. Since 2012 - Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Business and Technology, Caucasus International University. Since 2018 - Head of the Doctoral Education Program in Business Administration. Since 2018 - Accreditation Expert at National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement of Georgia. Since 2019 - Certified reviewer at WoS Publons Academy and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR) and the Caucasus International University’s International Journal of Social Sciences. A certified project manager (PRINCE 2 Certificate # P2R / 165226 issued by APMG - the world-leading accreditation and testing institute) with more than 15 years of working experience in project management for the UNDP, the USAID and the OSGF in Georgia. I have extensive experience of scientific and pedagogical cooperation with various universities. For years, I delivered lectures at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Ilia State University. Currently, I am collaborating with TSU and Speyer (Germany) University of Administrative Sciences on a joint English-language master's program in Public Administration as a Visiting Lecturer. I have experience in delivering lectures at foreign universities. I have been actively involved in scientific research; regularly present research findings to the scientific community through conferences, forums, symposia and seminars both in Georgia and abroad and publish them in scientific journals. My research interest includes financial education and inclusion, the impact of education on economic development, quality of education and workforce competitiveness, financing for development, etc. More than 30 research papers are published in different scientific journals. 

Türkçe ve İngilizce

Syed Tauseef Hassan is an Associate Professor at Hezhou University, Hezhou, China. With a robust academic background and extensive teaching experience, His expertise spans econometrics, environmental economics, energy finance, green economy, digital economy. 

Tulus Suryanto is an academic, as well as a professional practitioner in the fields of business.

José Duarte da Rocha Santos received his PhD in Management from Vigo University. He also holds an MSc in Marketing and a bachelor’s degree in Business Sciences.
Between 1987 and 2002, he played various roles in sales, marketing, and management of companies in the information technology sector. From 2003 to 2018, he was a management and marketing consultant.
Since 1999, he has been a professor in higher education in Portugal in the fields of management and marketing. He is currently a marketing professor at the Accounting and Business School of the Polytechnic of Porto (ISCAP/P.PORTO).
He is also a senior researcher at the CEOS.PP - Centre for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal. His main areas of research are relational marketing and digital strategies of customer relationship.

Max Gillman serves as Hayek Professor of Economic History at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Economic Modelling, part time Research Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest and Senior Researcher at European Research University (ERUNI), a Research Associate at CERGE-EI, Prague, and at CERS-EI, Budapest, and Visiting Professor at the National Bank of Slovakia,. Previously he served as full professors at Cardiff Business School, UK, and at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, where he also served as visiting professor at CEU until 2020. Recent past positions include Senior Fellow at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, visiting professor at the Bank of Finland. Earlier visiting positions include were at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Loughborough University, UK, New York University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, The University of Chicago, International Monetary Fund, and Monash University, and Melbourne University. Teaching monetary economics and macroeconomics, he has published forty-eight research articles in Economics journals, focusing on inflation, financial intermediation, monetary policy, real business cycles, public finance, oil prices, economic growth, development and human capital. Gillman has published four books, namely The Spectre of Inflation; Principles of Macroeconomics: an Evolutionary Approach; Advanced Modern Macroeconomics: Analysis and Application; Inflation Theory in Economics: Welfare, Velocity, Growth and Business Cycles; and is Editor of Collected Papers in Monetary Theory, by Robert E. Lucas, Jr.

Prof. Dr. Fevzi Serkan Özdemir,

Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi İşletme Bölümü’nde Muhasebe ve Finansman Anabilim Dalı’nda profesör olarak görev yapmaktadır. Doktorasını Ankara Üniversitesi'nde tamamlayan Prof. Özdemir, çalışmasında Tekdüzen Muhasebe Sistemi ve Uluslararası Finansal Raporlama Standartları çerçevesinde üretilen finansal tablo bilgilerinin, finansal bilgilerin niteliksel özelliklerinden biri olan bilginin ihtiyaca uygunluğu açısından finansal başarısızlık tahminleri yoluyla değerlendirilmesini ele almıştır. Bu çalışması, 2011 yılında İktisadi Araştırmalar Vakfı tarafından düzenlenen tez değerlendirme yarışmasında En İyi İkinci Doktora Tezi ödülüne layık görülmüştür.

Doktora sürecinde ve sonrasında New York Üniversitesi'nde misafir araştırmacı olarak bulunan Prof. Özdemir, muhasebe bilgi sistemi, finansal raporlama ve analiz, muhasebe kuramı ve eğitimi, uluslararası muhasebe ve kurumsal sürdürülebilirlik konularında çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir.

Prof. Özdemir'in birçok ulusal ve uluslararası dergide yayımlanmış makalesi ve çeşitli bilimsel toplantılarda sunulmuş bildirileri bulunmaktadır. Aynı zamanda birçok üniversitede finansal raporlama, sürdürülebilirlik ve finansal performans konularında yüksek lisans ve doktora tezlerine danışmanlık yapmıştır. Muhasebe ve finansman alanında çeşitli kitaplarda yazarlık ve editörlük yapmış olan Prof. Özdemir, aynı zamanda çeşitli akademik dergilerde hakemlik ve yayın kurulu üyeliği görevlerini de üstlenmiştir. Ayrıca, Muhasebede Arama Konferansları ile Uluslararası Sigortacılık, Bankacılık ve Finans Sempozyumlarının koordinatörlüğünü yürütmektedir.

2008 yılından bu yana Muhasebe ve Vergi Uygulamaları Dergisi'nde sırasıyla Yayın Kurulu Sekreterliği, Editör Yardımcılığı ve Editörlük görevlerinde bulunmuş olup, halen Baş Editörlük görevini sürdürmektedir.

Prof. Özdemir ayrıca Serbest Muhasebeci Mali Müşavir (SMMM) ve Bağımsız Denetçi yetki belgelerine sahip olup, Güvence Hizmetleri Derneği'nin genel başkan yardımcısı olarak görev yapmaktadır.

Mehmet Asutay is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy & Finance at the Durham University Business School and the Director of the Durham Centre in Islamic Economics and Finance.
Mehmet’s teaching, research, publication, and supervision of research is all in Islamic moral economy/Islamic economics, Islamic political economy, Islamic finance and banking, Islamic governance and management, Islamic social welfare institutions, and the Middle Eastern political economies.
His articles on his research interests have appeared in various international academic journals and professional magazines. He has also published manuscripts and edited books on aspects of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance.
Mehmet has acted as a consultant to COMCEC (part of OIC), CIBAFI and UNDP-IICPSD on various projects and was also a member of the Board of Directors of Albaraka Turk Participation Bank from 2018-2020.
Mehmet has recently been engaged in a project (The Invisible Ceiling: Muslim Immigrant Entrepreneurs Navigate Norway’s Financial Environment – funded by the Norwegian Research Council) - aiming to develop entrepreneurship culture among Muslim refugees and immigrants through various instruments of Islamic finance. The project proposes blended financing involving Islamic commercial finance as well as Islamic social finance in empowering Muslim refugees and immigrants. Mehmet has been involved in a UNDP project to develop Islamic microfinance instruments in Afghanistan. He completed projects for CIBAFI in developing the Sustainable Development Guide for Islamic Financial Institutions and for UNDP in developing an MOOC training programme in Islamic Finance for SDGs.
Mehmet is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Islam and Society, the International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance Studies, and the Review of Islamic Economics. Mehmet is also a Board Member of the International Association for Islamic Economics.
Mehmet is the 2024 Laureate of IsDB (Islamic Development Bank) Prize for Impactful Achievement in Islamic Economics for recognition of his novel work on Islamic moral economy and the articulation of Islamic finance to be supportive of sustainable development and the welfare of human beings.
Durham University Profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/business/our-people/mehmet-asutay/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=e6ZHO-cAAAAJ&hl=en

Olga Kravets is a senior lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests are in history and politics of consumer culture, markets, and marketing with the focus on studying inequalities from critical perspectives. She co-edited The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture and The Routledge Companion to Marketing and Feminism. Her research has been published in Business History Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Material Culture, Marketing Theory among others and in edited books.