She was born in Istanbul in 1963. She completed her primary education at Kültür College and her secondary education at Robert College. She completed her undergraduate education at Boğaziçi University. She then did a master’s degree in Educational Administration at California State University. She worked as an assistant in the branch of Mathematics at this university. She participated in administration projects at various schools in California. She served as a teacher of mathematics and Director at Kültür Science High School. She has worked as General Director of Kültür Schools since 2002. Bahar Akıngüç Günver received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Behavioral Sciences in the Faculty of Business Administration at Istanbul University, and her dissertation has been published as a book under the title of Aile İşletmeleri (Family Businesses). Bahar Akıngüç Günver is the President of the Board of Trustees for IKU, while continuing her position as the editorial director of Yaşadıkça Eğitim (Lifelong Education) magazine.
She was born in 1958 in Istanbul. She completed her primary and secondary education at Kültür College. Then she received her bachelor’s degree in Management-Statistics from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University in 1979. She went to London and received graduate education in Computer and Programming at the Control Data Institute. She worked at the Department of System Support and Programming at NCR Information Technology Company Inc. for three years. By establishing the Kültür College Education and Administration Computer Systems, she created the Information Technology Center. She accomplished the foundation of Kültür 2000 Primary School and Pre-School, which started providing education in 1998. Since the year 2000, she has been working as a member of the Board of Directors at the Turkish Private Schools Association. Moreover, she has been serving as a member of the Higher Advisory Board for the Turkish Private Schools Association for the last two years, working to improve the Turkish Education System and to develop a more sufficient structure.Having undertaken various positions, such as Deputy General Manager, General Manager, Executive Committee Member/President, she is currently serving as the President of the Board of Directors at Istanbul Kültür Educational Institutions. She also serves as Vice President of the Board of Trustees at Istanbul Kültür University.
Prof. Dr. Fadime Üney Yüksektepe was born in Manisa, Salihli in 1980. After graduating from Sekine Evren Anatolian High School, she completed her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University in 2003 as not only the top of the departmant but also of the faculty. She had her MA in Industrial Engineering and her PhD in Business Management & Industrial Engineering from Koç University in 2005 and 2009, respectively.
She worked as a research assistant at Koç University between the years 2003-2009 and received a TÜBİTAK postgraduate scholarship. After finishing her doctorate program, she started to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Kültür University in 2009 and received the title of associate professor in 2014. She served as the Deputy Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Kültür University between the years of 2016-2018 and the Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering between the years 2018-2022. She received the title of professor in 2020 and has been serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Istanbul Kültür University since November 2021.
Between the years 2009 and 2022, she served as a Senate Member, University Executive Board Member, Faculty Board Member, Ethics Committee Vice President, Quality Commission Member, Quality Coordinator Assistant and Quality Unit Vice President.
She has many published articles, many papers and book chapters presented in national and international congresses. She also worked as a consultant in industrial projects and evaluator for KOSGEB and TUBITAK.
In February 2023, she took office as the Deputy Rector at Istanbul Kültür University.
Tamer Koçel was born in İnönü, Eskişehir in 1946. He graduated from Kabataş High School in 1963 and graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Istanbul University in 1967. In the same year, he entered the Faculty of Business Administration Professorship as an assistant and in 1968 he graduated from the 11th Term Business Administration Specialization Program of the Institute of Business Economics.
He received his MBA degree from Michigan State University in the USA in 1974 and became Associate Professor in 1975 at Istanbul University. In 1977, he graduated from the 40th semester program at the Banff School of Advanced Management in Alberta, Canada.
From 1975 to 1979, he served as Secretary General and Education Coordinator at the Institute of Business Economics. Between 1980 and 1982, he worked as a guest lecturer for two years at Roosevelt University in Chicago, USA. and in 1982 he was promoted to Professor of Management and Organization by the Istanbul University Senate.
He served as faculty member and head of the department at Istanbul University Faculty of Business Administration and Institute of Business Economics and he also worked as a consultant and coordinator for some of the largest private companies in Turkey between 1983-1994.
In 1999, he transferred to Istanbul Kültür University and served as the Director of the Institute of Social Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Vice Rector. And from September 2004 to November 2008, he served as the Rector of Istanbul Kültür University.
Between 2004 and 2012, he worked as the Director of Istanbul Kültür University Family Businesses and Entrepreneurship Research Center. Koçel currently works as a member of IKU Board of Trustees at Istanbul Kültür University.
Prof. Koçel has two books, “Business Management” and “Management Concepts and Techniques” and various copyright and translation articles.
Lale Akıngüç was born in Istanbul. She completed her primary and secondary education at Kültür College. Later, she graduated from Marmara University, Department of English. She went to England and continued her studies on language teaching there. Then, she worked as an English Language Teacher and Deputy Principal at Kültür College Primary School.
Akıngüç especially worked on educational administration, development of foreign language education, eight-year primary and pre-school education. She carried out the establishment studies of Kültür Kindergartens in order to support the importance of education and the pre-school enrollment rate of our country.
She has been serving as Deputy General Manager, General Manager, Board Member/Chairperson since 1997, and is still an Istanbul Kültür Educational Institutions Board Member and a member of Board of Trustees of the Kültür Education Foundation.
Attorney Nil Tunca was born in 1949. As she had her middle-high and high-school education at Kültür College, she completed her undergraduate education in 1974, which she started at Istanbul University Faculty of Law. Right after her graduation, she completed her law internship and got her licence on 16/10/1975 and in the same year, she started her profession as a Lawyer.
Attorney Tunca, who has been continuing the attorneyship for 46 years as self-employed, has conducted the duty of Istanbul Kültür University Attorneyship and Legal Counsellor between 2005-and 2021.
Attorney Nil Tunca is married with two children.
