I teach and research at the Oriental Faculty, al Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The areas of my research interests include cultural identity, religion and social cohesion; religious symbolism in art; the Other, cross-cultural encounters in Central, South Asia which I research from a cross-disciplinary perspective, within the fields of history, sociology and history of religion, art history, semiotics.
I am interested in exploring how systems (cultural, religious, social) maintain and develop themselves (hence is the reference to identities and cohesion); how they communicate and interact with each other (the Other and cross-cultural and cross-religious encounters); how they represent themselves symbolically (this is where semiotics and history of art enter my research plane). Geographically these fields embrace Central and South Asia (India).
Professor Dr. Fuat ERDAL (Rector), Anadolu University, Türkiye
Dergi Sahibi
Dr. Iskandar Abdullaev has an MSc and PhD from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agriculture Mechanization Engineers (TIIAME), Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Part of his PhD was conducted at Iowa State University (ISU), Iowa, USA. Dr. Abdullaev has intensive training and education programs in Israel (1996-1997), USA (1999) and the Netherlands (2000), Switzerland (2002). His experience is around 30 years in water management, water institutions, and environmental activities in Afghanistan and five Central Asian countries.
Dr. Abdullaev is the Director of the International Water Management Institute’s Pakistan Office. Before 2023-2024, he completed a Visiting Professorship at the Centre for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. Before that, Dr. Abdullaev worked as Deputy Director II of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Institute from 2019 to 2023. From 2013 to 2019, he was the Executive Director of the Regional Environmental Center (CAREC) for Central Asia.
From 2009 to 2013, Dr. Abdullaev was a regional advisor for Germany’s Berlin Initiative—Transboundary Water Management in Central Asia (Programme) at the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). Before this, from 2007 to 2009, he was a Senior Researcher at the ZEF Centre for Development Research University of Bonn (Germany), where he conducted research in Central Asia and Afghanistan, contributing to the body of knowledge in the field.
From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Abdullaev worked as a researcher at the International Water Management Institute (Headquartered in Sri Lanka).
Dr. Abdullaev is a member of the editorial boards of a few international journals and a member of academic and professional associations. He has published three monographic books, over 30 peer-reviewed articles, and policy papers and presented over 150 conference papers.
İngilizce ve Türkçe
Halihazırda, Gulf University for Science and Technology (Kuwait) ve İbn Haldun Üniversitesi, İşletme Bölümü öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmakta olan Prof. Dr. Ekrem Tatoğlu, 1991 yılında Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi İşletme Bölümünden mezun olmuştur. Sırasıyla, 1994 yılında İngiltere’de Nottingham Üniversitesi, School of Management and Finance’te İş İdaresi Master (MBA) programını tamamlamış, 1998 yılında ise yine aynı ülkede Leeds Üniversitesi İşletme Okulu’ndan Uluslararası İşletmecilik alanında doktora derecesi almıştır. Prof. Dr. Tatoğlu, uluslararası işletmecilik ve stratejik yönetim alanlarında pek çok uluslararası saygın akademik dergilerde 120’nin üzerinde araştırma makalesi yayınlamıştır. Ayrıca, Prof. Dr. Tatoğlu’nun Türkiye’deki yabancı sermayeli şirketlerin yönetimi, organizasyonu ve performansı ile çok uluslu Türk şirketlerinin uluslararasılaşma stratejileri üzerine yayımlanmış uluslararası iki kitabı mevcuttur. Prof. Dr. Tatoğlu, uluslararası düzeyde Google Akademi tarafından yapılan atıf taramasında toplamda 15,300’den fazla atıf alarak toplamda 63 H-endeks skoruna ulaşmıştır.
Prof. Dr. Tatoğlu, akademik hayata atılmadan önce T.B.M.M. Bütçe ve Plan Komisyonu’nda uzman olarak görev yapmıştır. Bir müddet T.C. Başbakanlık bünyesinde Strateji Geliştirme Başkanlığı görevini vekaleten yürütmüş olan Prof. Dr. Tatoğlu, strateji ve yönetim konularında değişik ölçek ve sektörlerdeki pek çok firmaya eğitim seminerleri vermiş ve danışmanlıklarda bulunmuştur. Academy of Management ve Academy of International Business gibi saygın uluslararası akademik kuruluşların üyesi olan Prof. Dr. Tatoğlu 2015 yılından itibaren Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi (TÜBA) üyesidir.
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