1988 yılında Karabük'te doğan yazar, ilkokul ve lise öğrenimini Karabük’ün Yenice ilçesinde tamamlamıştır. 2010 yılında Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü’nden mezun olmuştur. Akademik çalışmalarına aynı üniversitede devam eden yazar, 2014 yılında Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’nde yüksek lisansını, 2019 yılında ise doktora derecesini tamamlamıştır. Çalışmaları; tüketici davranışları, nöropazarlama, siyasal pazarlama, dijital pazarlama ve satın alma tarzları gibi alanlara odaklanmaktadır. Yazar, bu konularda literatüre çeşitli katkılarda bulunmuştur.

Professor Dr. Muhammad Ashfaq is currently working as Professor/Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, the University of Faisalabad-Pakistan. He completed his graduation in 1985 and earned MS degree in Agricultural Economics in 1988. He won the scholarship in 1990-91, from USAID for training in Agricultural Marketing and Sales from Colorado State University, USA. Later on he won scholarship from the World Bank for higher studies in Australia and went to University of New England, Armidale Australia in 1995 and successfully completed his PhD degree. There he carried out his doctoral level research on the key issue of agricultural policy in Pakistan. During his stay in Australia, he also actively participated in various socio-cultural activities. In the year 2006, he also won a prestigious Higher Education Commission funded fellowship and went to University of Laval, Canada for his post doctorate studies. Dr. Ashfaq has rendered services as consultant to various national and international organizations. He is also acting as PhD/MS supervisor for ICDD, Kassel University, Germany. He has also won the TWAS Associateship Award in 2011 and Australian Alumni Excellence Award in 2013 for Innovation and Research. He has supervised 12 PhD students and more than 150 MS/M.Phil/MSc students. He is the author/co-author of 5 books; 14 chapters and more than 100 research papers published in peer reviewed journals. He is also working as editor/section editor of different journals. He has completed 32 research projects as PI/Co-PI which were funded by national and international organisations like USAID, ACIAR, ICARDA, IFPRI, ILRI, AgMIP, JBIC, ADB, JICA, TiKA, UK Met Dept. and Govt of Pakistan.
Experience: Prof. Ashfaq have more than 32 years of rich teaching and research experience and have interest and worked on various research projects in the following areas;
o Irrigated Agriculture
o Impact Assessment of Interventions and policy
o Supply Chain Management
o Climate Change and Poverty

Azamat Maksüdünov (Ph.D.) is an educator with over a decade of experience in the field of business academia. He is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Florida Atlantic University for the academic year 2023-2024. Currently, he is a full-time associate professor at Kyrgyz - Turkish Manas University, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Management. Dr. Maksüdünov has authored or co-authored 44 articles, 40 conference papers, 10 book chapters, and 4 books. He received the Best Paper Award at the 26th World Business Congress organized by the International Management Development Association (IMDA) in May 2016, as well as a Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyzstan in December 2021.

Erdogan Ekiz is Founding Dean of Tourism and Hospitality Management School at Central Asian University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He was previously Dean of Faculty at TEAM University in Tashkent Uzbekistan and before that he worked in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cyprus, Turkey, Malaysia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Morocco various universities over 25 years.

Dr. Ekiz completed his Ph.D. in tourism and hospitality management at the SHTM at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has recently received a DSc in Economics from Supreme Attestation Commission, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He has a B.Sc. in THM and an M.B.A. in services marketing from Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus. He is a ‘Certified Hospitality Educator’ (CHE) from the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute and ‘Qualified Learning Facilitator’ (QLF) from École hôtelière de Lausanne. He is an ‘Advanced Trainer’ with Distinction of International Air Transport Association (IATA).

 Yönetim & Organizasyon alanında Bilim Doktoru (1999),
 Yönetim ve Strateji alanında Doçent (2009),
 Yönetim ve İletişim alanlarında Profesör (2014-2019),
 Yaptığı akademik çalışmalarla, AD Scientific Index 2025 raporuna göre; Türkiye’de girişimcilik alanında ilk sırada yer almaktadır.

 12.Kalkınma Planı Girişimcilik İhtisas Komisyonu Üyesi (2024-2028),
 Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi (CEO Teknoloji Geliştirme Merkezi-TEKMER)
 ABD’de “Türk Girişimciliği” ile ilgili çalışması Journal of the Knowledge Economy (SSCI) dergisinde yayımlanmıştır.

 TÜBİTAK Bilimsel Yayın Teşviki ödülü kazanmıştır.
 International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Management Inquiries dergisi Baş Editörü,

 EMI Girişimcilik & Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi’nin başkanıdır (20’den fazla bilimsel kongreye başkanlık yapmıştır).

 Özbekistan, Romanya, Çin ve ABD gibi 20’den fazla ülkede yapılan bilimsel kongre ve sempozyumlarda davetli konuşmacı olarak bilimsel bildiriler sunmuş ve moderatörlük yapmıştır.

 Özbekistan -Türkiye ilişkilerine katkılarından dolayı ödüllendirilmiştir.
 Özbekistan ve Kazakistan’da lisansüstü; ERASMUS kapsamında Romanya’da lisans düzeyinde dersler vermiştir.