Starting to work at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association in March 2015, Dr. Aktan received her primary education in London, England, her secondary education in Ankara, Turkey and her high school education in Sydney, Australia. She completed her BA in Finance and Business Law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and completed her MA in 2012 in the “Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She returned to Turkey in 2013. She completed her doctorate degree at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Department of Business Administration. During his time in Australia, she held managerial positions in various sectors for over 9 years. She is also a Member of the Board of Auditors at the Finance Association.

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Dr. Göknur Arzu Akyüz, Lisans derecesini 1992 yılında ODTÜ Endüstri Mühendisliği’nden almıştır. 12 yıl boyunca farklı sektör ve firmalarda (ASELSAN, TEPE Grup, EMEK Elektrik, Interfarma, MITAŞ) Üretim Planlama ve Kontrol, Kurumsal Kaynak Planlama ve Kalite Yönetimi konularında çeşitli görevlerde bulunmuş ve farklı sistem kurulum projelerinde (Malzeme Yönetim Sistemi, Kalite Yönetim Sistemi ve Kurumsal Kaynak Planlama) aktif rol üstlenmiştir.  2004 yılında Atılım Üniversitesi Endüstri Müh. Bölümü’nde Öğretim Görevlisi olarak çalışmaya başlamış ve bu bölümde 2004-2015 yılları arasında çeşitli dersler (Üretim Planlama, Kalite Yönetimi, Simulasyon, Sistem Tasarımı, Maliyet Analizi gibi) vermiştir. Yüksek Lisans derecesini 2008 yılında Atılım Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü, Doktora derecesini 2012 yılında Atılım Üniversitesi MODES (Mühendislik Sistemleri Tasarım ve Modellemesi) Programından almıştır.
Güz 2015-2016 döneminde THK Üniversitesi İşletme Fakültesi Lojistik Yönetimi Bölümü’ne Yrd.Doç.Dr. kadrosuyla katılmıştır. Akademik ilgi alanları Üretim Planlama, Tedarik Zinciri Yönetimi, Kalite Yönetimi ve e-işbirliğidir.

He was born in 1963 in Eskişehir. He graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of the Turkish Military Academy in 1984 and from the Department of Business Administration at İnönü University in 1994. He received his MA from İnönü University, Institute of Social Sciences, Business Administration Department in 1996, and his PhD from Ankara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Business Administration Department in 2005. Between 1998 and 2015, he served as an Instructor and Head of the Department at the Turkish Military Academy. He teaches Financial Management, Engineering Economics, Cost and Management Accounting, General Accounting. He speaks English.

Bachelor’s Degree: Gazi University – Public Finance (2002)/ Anadolu University- Aviation Management(2020)

Master’s Degree: Gazi University – Accounting- Finance (2012)

Doctorate: UTAA – Business Administration (2018)

After graduating from Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Banking, Adnan Güzel, PhD, received his Master's and Doctorate degrees from the Money Banking Department of the Social Sciences Institute of Istanbul University.
He worked as an Inspector, Manager and President in private and public banks for about 27 years. Actively traded in money and capital markets, regulated and coordinated the buying and selling principles of investment products (stocks, government bonds, treasury bills, foreign currency bonds, eurobonds, repo, private sector debt instruments, bank bonds, mutual funds, futures, gold). He founded and managed investment centers and investment funds, and served as the chairman of the fund board for about 20 years. He worked in the field of corporate finance, carried out corporate management and investor relations, carried out portfolio management tasks of fixed income securities and stock portfolios and many mutual funds with different contents. As the Project Leader, he carried out the public offering of many companies, initiated the first company valuation, took part in the establishment of the Izmir Futures and Options Exchange, and took part in the commission established for the establishment of Product Specialized Exchanges. He was the coordinator of the Money and Capital Markets working group established under the Banks Association of Turkey and the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency, a member of the Gold Working Group, and the head of the Securitization of Housing Loans working group, and was elected as an alternate member of the Ethics Committee of the Banks Association of Turkey. He took part in the establishment of many companies, established the first real estate investment trust company, and carried out control and coordination duties in order to ensure that 25 financial and non-financial Bank subsidiaries are managed in line with the principles of profitability and efficiency. 
In addition to his active duties at the bank, he simultaneously served as the General Manager of Vakıf Real Estate Investment Trust, Atakule Real Estate Investment Trust and Taksim Otelcilik for more than 4 years. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Member of the Board of Directors and Auditors at 12 different financial and non-financial companies since 1996. He is still a member of the Board of the Turkish Institutional Investor Managers Association, the Advisory Board of the Investor Magazine and a member of the Finance Association. He has attended many trainings in the field of banking and finance at home and abroad. Capital Markets holds advanced derivatives and corporate rating licenses. For more than five years, he made comments on financial markets, stock market, Turkish economy and banking on TRT Television, 2 days a week every week, and his current comments were published on the TRT homepage. 

After graduating from Kuleli Military High School in 1987, Mechanical Engineering Department of the Turkish Military Academy in 1991, and completing his master's degree in Material Logistics Management (English) at Yeditepe University Social Sciences Institute in 2001, Dr. Kurt completed his doctorate in Gazi University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Business Administration in 2010 with his doctoral thesis titled “Kaizen Approach in Cost Improvement and an Application”.
Between 2003-2013, he took permanent undergraduate courses in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of KHO, between 2010-2013, master's courses as a guest lecturer in the Department of Materials Supply and Logistics Management of the Institute of Defense Sciences between 2010-2013, and between 2013-2015 at Başkent University Kazan Vocational School. He taught undergraduate courses.
In addition to the many certificates and course programs he attended, he contributed as a project member to the "Determination of the Sufficiency of Multiple Undergraduate Programs" project in KHO in 2011. He is also a member of the group called “Euro Special Interest Group on Cutting and Packing (ESICUP)” since 2010. Dr.Kurt, Head of Operations Research Department at KHO Industrial and Systems Engineering Department between 2011-2013, Başkent University. He also served as Deputy Director and Mechatronics Program Responsible at Kazan Vocational School between 2013-2015.
Joining the Turkish Aeronautical Association University with an assistant professor staff at the beginning of March 2015, Dr. Kurt's work focuses on logistics planning, operations, project management, and operations research.

Kara Harp Okulunda İktisat lisans (1981), İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi’nde Uluslararası İlişkiler alanında yüksek lisans (1984), iktisat Ana Bilim dalında ise doktora programını (1987) tamamlamıştır. 1990 yılında ise Kara Harp Akademisini tamamlayarak kurmay subay olmuştur. Akademik yaşama kadar, çeşitli Milli ve NATO kadrolarda lojistik faaliyetlerle ilgili görevlerde bulunmuştur. Dr. Demir, 2014 yılında doçent olmuştur. Çeşitli Üniversitelerde çalıştıktan sonra, 2017-2018 Eğitim döneminde THK Üniversitesi, Lojistik Yönetim Bölümü öğretim üyesi kadrosuna katılmıştır. Uzmanlık alanı ile ilgili yayınlanmış, çok sayıda kitap makale ve bildirileri vardır. 

Associate Professor. Suat BEGEC graduated from Kuleli Military High School in 1979 and from the Turkish Military Academy in 1983. In addition, he graduated from Anadolu University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 2007, and an Associate Degree from Vocational School of Justice in 2016. He completed his Master's Degree in Business Administration at Gebze Institute of Technology in 1997 and his PhD in Management and Organization at Marmara University in 2004. He became Associate Professor of Strategy and Management in 2015. He completed the US Infantry Officer Evolvement Course (Ft Benning) with a Commandant List degree. He gave lectures at Uludağ, Aksaray, Çağ, Toros and Turiba/Latvia Universities. He served as Head of Teaching and Head of ATASE SAREM Strategic Research Board at the Center of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism (CoE-DAT). He has been working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration at University of Turkish Aeronautical Association since December 2016.

Working as a Asst. Prof. Dr. at the Faculty of Business Administration of the Turkish Aeronautical Association, Elif Tuğba Şahin received her undergraduate degree from the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Gazi University. She completed her master's degree in the Department of Business Administration with the thesis she wrote in the field of marketing and completed her doctorate education at Hacettepe University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Business Administration.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Haydar ATEŞ graduated from Kuleli Military High School in 1976 and from the Army War College in 1980 with a Bachelor of Business Administration diploma. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1991 and received a Master Degree in Management (Management, Logistics Management, and Human Resources Management), War History, Strategy and International Relations. He completed his PhD education at Hacettepe University in 2013. He retired from the Turkish Armed Forces, serving as staff officer and troops commander in 2007. During this period, he prepared the master plan of the project for restructuring of the Army Logistics Management System and the establishment of a national system and served as the Logistics Management System Project Manager and Logistics Information System Project Manager. He served in the International Force (TIPH) in the West Bank/Palestine and in the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Central Regional Command in Kabul/Afghanistan, based on UN Resolution, on behalf of the Turkish Armed Forces. He worked as a lecturer and liaison officer at the US Army Command and Staff College. He has 7 Meritorious Service Medals at national and international level. Following his PhD education, he gave part-time undergraduate and graduate courses on Logistics Management at Atılım University, on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Security at the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy, and on Educational Management at Hacettepe University and Başkent University. Since 2016, he has been teaching full-time at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Department of Logistics Management, Department of Business Administration, and Institute of Social Sciences. He has many books, book chapters, and articles in the fields of Educational Management, Logistics Management, and International Relations published in national and international area. In addition to his academic activities, he is the Türkiye Chapter President of the World Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Federation (WUAVF) and a member of the Federation's Advisory Board. He speaks English (fluently) and French (basic).

Dr. Meriç Gökdalay completed her undergraduate education in the Civil Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1986, her graduate education in the Transportation Department of the Middle East Technical University (METU) Civil Engineering Department, and her Ph.D. in the Transportation Department of the Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Civil Engineering Department. Between 1986 and 2012 Temelsu Ltd. Sti, General Directorate of Highways, Development Bank of Turkey and General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHMI), since December 2015,she has been working as a faculty member at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Department of Aviation Management. Having various certificates from IATA (The International Air Transport Association) and ACI (Airport Council International), Dr. Meriç Gökdalay's fields of work are Air Transportation, her areas of interest are Airports (Planning, Design, Capacity and Management), and Airlines (Management, Planning and Optimization).

After graduating from Kuleli Military High School in 1987, Mechanical Engineering Department of the Turkish Military Academy in 1991, and completing his master's degree in Material Logistics Management (English) at Yeditepe University Social Sciences Institute in 2001, Dr. Kurt completed his doctorate in Gazi University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Business Administration in 2010 with his doctoral thesis titled “Kaizen Approach in Cost Improvement and an Application”.
Between 2003-2013, he took permanent undergraduate courses in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of KHO, between 2010-2013, master's courses as a guest lecturer in the Department of Materials Supply and Logistics Management of the Institute of Defense Sciences between 2010-2013, and between 2013-2015 at Başkent University Kazan Vocational School. He taught undergraduate courses.
In addition to the many certificates and course programs he attended, he contributed as a project member to the "Determination of the Sufficiency of Multiple Undergraduate Programs" project in KHO in 2011. He is also a member of the group called “Euro Special Interest Group on Cutting and Packing (ESICUP)” since 2010. Dr.Kurt, Head of Operations Research Department at KHO Industrial and Systems Engineering Department between 2011-2013, Başkent University. He also served as Deputy Director and Mechatronics Program Responsible at Kazan Vocational School between 2013-2015.
Joining the Turkish Aeronautical Association University with an assistant professor staff at the beginning of March 2015, Dr. Kurt's work focuses on logistics planning, operations, project management, and operations research.

Dr. Tuğba Yashin received her BA from Gywenedd Mercy College, USA, Department of Business Administration (2004), her MA from University of Houston, USA, Department of Business Administration and her Ph.D. from Baskent University, Department of Business Administration (2016). She worked as a financial controller and financial advisor in various financial institutions between 2006-2014. ShHe has been working as a lecturer at THK University since December 2016.

Lecturer Celal Özgür BÜYÜKYAVUZ completed his undergraduate education at Istanbul University Faculty of Business Administration and his master's degree at Istanbul University Faculty of Business Marketing Department with his thesis on "brand personality". She is continuing her doctorate education at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association. Main topics of interest; "marketing management, brand management, sales management, strategic management".

He completed his undergraduate education at Erciyes University, Department of Mathematics. He started her graduate studies at METU Department of Financial Mathematics. At the same time, he completed her master's degree at Kırıkkale University in Algebra and Number Theory. He started her doctorate education in the field of Number Theory with a scholarship in the Department of Mathematics at Bilkent University. During this period, he continued her studies as a scholarship assistant at Bilkent University. Since 2015, he has been teaching Mathematics at the Faculty of Business Administration of our University. He also took part in the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, projects and worked on the Housing Price Index. He continues his doctorate studies at Istanbul Sebahattin Zaim University on Islamic economics, which is his special interest, and works in the field of mathematical economics.

She was born in 1986 in Istanbul. She received his undergraduate degree from Gazi University, Faculty of Commerce and Tourism Education, Department of Accounting and Finance (2008), and her master's degree from Gazi University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Business Administration, Accounting - Finance in 2016. Between 2014-2016, she took courses at Gazi University and University of Turkish Aeronautical Association Business Administration Doctorate Programs. As of August 2012, he has been working as a lecturer at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association. She is currently continuing her doctorate studies at Eskişehir Anadolu University, Department of Accounting.

Duygu Aghazadeh is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial Engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology. She has been working as a Research and Teaching assisstant at the same university since 2014. She got her Master’s degree from the Industrial Engineering department of TOBB University in 2016. Her B.Sc. is from Urmia University of Technology, Iran, in the same major. She has been writing a thesis on “Integration of fleet sizing and replenishment planning in supply chains” and investigating different versions of problems. She has three journal papers, two in the field of Industrial Engineering and the other in the field of Computer Engineering. She has presented many papers at national/international conferences. Her fields of interest are logistics, inventory control, integration of logistics and inventory, fleet sizing, computer programming, and machine learning.

Lisans eğitimini Türk Hava Kurumu Üniversitesi Havacılık Yönetimi bölümünde 2017 yılında tamamlamış olan Bensu Özdemir Gürsoy, Lojistik Yönetimi bölümünde yan dal yapmıştır. Kariyerine 2017 yılında Hitit Lojistik’te hava ithalat uzmanı olarak başlamış, 2018 yılında görevinden ayrılarak Turkish Cargo’ya başlamıştır. Burada Müşteri Hizmetleri Müdürlüğü’nde memur olarak 3 yıl görev yaptıktan sonra 2021 yılında Atılım Üniversitesi Havacılık Yönetimi Bölümü’nde araştırma görevlisi olarak görev yapmıştır. İleri düzeyde İngilizce bilen Bensu Özdemir Gürsoy Eskişehir Teknik Üniversitesi Havacılık Yönetimi ana bilim dalında yüksek lisans yapmakta olup, Türk Hava Kurumu Üniversitesi Havacılık Yönetimi Bölümünde Araştırma Görevlisi olarak görevini devam ettirmektedir.

She completed her undergraduate education in the Department of Logistics Management and Aviation Management at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association. She worked as an Air and Road export and import specialist in an International logistics company for three years. Çora, who started to work in March 2022, continues her education at TOBB University Industrial Engineering Master's Program.

He was entitled to enter the Department of Business Administration at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association with a full scholarship in 2013. He continued his undergraduate education at the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transportation and Communications (PEDAS)/Department of Economics at the University of Zilina for six months. He graduated from the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association in 2018 as a high honor student with a department degree. He completed his master's degree in Gazi University (AHBVU) Graduate Education Institute, Department of Business Administration, Marketing Department in 2020. He continues his PhD program in Aviation Management at Eskişehir Technical University Graduate Education Institute.

Hazar Emeksiz, who completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in 2014, started to work as a Research Assistant in the Department of Business Administration at the Turkish Aeronautical Association in the same year. Hazar Emeksiz, who attended various training seminars and did internship in institutions such as the Capital Markets Board and the Strategic Research Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during his university years, speaks English at an advanced level. He is continuing his master's degree in International Business Administration at Hacı Bayram Veli University. He is still working as a Research Assistant in the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association.

Hasan Buğra IŞILAR, who completed his undergraduate education with the first place in the Department of Aviation Management at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, continued his undergraduate education at Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Department of Business Administration for a half-term. During a certain period of his undergraduate education, he worked as a Crew Planning and Flight Operations Specialist at Skyline Transportation and Trade Inc. Hasan Buğra IŞILAR, who speaks advanced English, has a master's degree in Aviation Management at Eskişehir Technical University and continues his duty as a Research Assistant in the Department of Aviation Management at the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association.

Mert AKINET, who completed his high school education with the first degree of the department, won the Turkish Aeronautical Association University Aviation Management Department in 2012 with a full scholarship. Mert AKINET, who successfully graduated from the Turkish Aeronautical Association University, Faculty of Business Administration with his second degree, was appointed as a research assistant to the Aviation Management Department in November 2017. AKINET also successfully completed the undergraduate program of Anadolu University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Finance, within the scope of the second university program. Mert AKINET completed his master's degree at Hacettepe University, Department of Business Administration, Department of Marketing, and continues his doctoral education at Eskişehir Technical University, Department of Aviation Management. Mert AKINET has SHGM approved certificates such as Aviation Safety, Safety Management System (SMS) in the field of aviation, and field-specific certificates such as Quality Management System (ISO 9001:2015), Digital Marketing (Google). AKINET speaks advanced English.

Lisans eğitimini Türk Hava Kurumu Üniversitesi Lojistik Yönetimi ve Havacılık Yönetimi bölümlerinde tamamlamış olan Simay Göksu KORKMAZ, Ocak 2020’de Lojistik Yönetimi Bölümüne araştırma görevlisi olarak atanmıştır. Korkmaz şu anda, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Üretim ve İşlemler Yönetimi Tezli Yüksek Lisans Programında yüksek lisansına devam etmektedir.