Central Board of Directors
Center Manager
Prof. Dr. Ioanna KUÇURADİ
He graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Philosophy in 1959. The year he graduated, Prof. He started working in this department as the assistant of Dr.Takiyettin Mengüşoğlu. He received his PhD degree in 1965 with his thesis titled "The Human Problem in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche". He worked at Atatürk University Faculty of Letters between 1965-68.
Kuçuradi, who was appointed to Hacettepe University in 1968, founded the Department of Philosophy in 1969 and served as the Head of the Department until his retirement in 2003. He became an associate professor in 1970 and a professor in 1978. Kuçuradi founded the Human Rights Research and Application Center at this university and started to run the Human Rights Master's and Doctorate Program within this Center. In 1983, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Philosophical Organizations and served as the Secretary General of this Federation between 1988-1998 and its President between 1998-2003. He is currently the Honorary President of this Federation. Ioanna Kuçuradi, who holds a UNESCO chair in Philosophy and Human Rights, currently serves as the Director of Maltepe University's Human Rights Research and Application Center and Head of the Department of Human Rights. He has been a member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty since 2010.
Board Members
Prof. Dr. Betül ÇOTUKSÖKEN
He graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Philosophy in 1972. After his graduation, he worked as a teacher at Darüşşafaka High School for six years and worked at Istanbul University Library. In 1982, he started working as a research assistant at the Department of Philosophy at Istanbul University and received his PhD in Medieval Philosophy in 1984. He became an associate professor in 1988 and a professor in 1996. After working at Istanbul University until 2000, he moved to Maltepe University in 2000 and founded the Department of Philosophy in 2004. Currently, in addition to being a faculty member at Maltepe University, he serves as Advisor to the Maltepe University Board of Trustees and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design.
Hüseyin ŞİMŞEK
Founder of Maltepe University and Chairman of the Board of Trustees
