Education

Honors & Awards

Academic Experience

Professional Participation

• Member of Turkish Academy of Sciences
• President and Past President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (1990-1994); previous offices: President-elect and Vice President (1988-1990); Deputy Secretary General (1986-1988) and Executive Council member (1982- 1994).
• Vice President (1996-2000) and Executive Council Member of the International
  Union of Psychological Science (1988-present).
• President of the Turkish Psychological Association (1992-1994)
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (1991-1993)
• Present or past Member of Editorial Board: International Journal of Psychology;
  International Migration; Turkish Psychology Journal; Hacettepe Journal of Population Studies; Journal of Economic Psychology; Cross-Cultural Psychology Monographs; Psychology and Developing Societies; Applied Psychology: An International Review; Indian Journal of Social Work; Early Childhood Research; Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
• Member of International Advisory Board of Editors:
  International Handbook of Psychology; International Encyclopedia of
  Psychology
• Member of International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology;
  International Council of Psychologists; Turkish Psychological Association;
  Turkish Social Science Association; International Society for the Study of
  Behavioural Development, International Association of Applied Psychology
• Member of the Advisory Board of Middle East Research Awards in Population
  and Development (Ford Foundation- IDRC-Population Council) (1986-89)
• Advisor to the Consultative Group an Early Childhood Care and Development, UNICEF (1986-1997)
• Member of the five-person International Board of Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Children's Britannica and Compton's Encyclopedia Turkish Versions. (completed, 1993)
• Trustee of AFS International/Intercultural Programs (1978-1987)
• Founding member and trustee of Turkish Cultural Foundation.
• Organizer of the 8th Biennial International Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology (6-10 July 1986)
• Member of the Simavi Foundation Social Science Award Jury (1981-1993)
• Member of C. T. Gürson Child Health Foundation Award Jury (1985-1993)
• Member of the Milliyet Social Science Award Jury (1986)
• Member of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation IEA Preprimary
  Project Content Review Panel, (1992-present)
• Member of the Advisory Board, International Literacy Institute (University of Pennsylvania) (1994-Present)
• Founding member and Scientific Advisor, Mother-Child Education Foundation
• Member of the Scientific Board, Turkish Foundation for Economic and Social
  Studies
• Member of the Aydin Dogan Social Science Jury, 1998
• Member of the Advisory Board of St. Francis College Center for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology, New York
• Foreign affiliate of the American Psychological Association
• Honorary member of Turkish Australian Society
• Member of Scientific Committee of CROP (Comparative Research Program on Poverty) of the International Social Science Council (1996-1999)
• Member of the International Children's Center Board of Advisors (2000 - )
• Member, Koç University Faculty of Law, Faculty Council.
• Member, Koç University, Faculty Council
• Member, Advisory Committee of XVIII. International Congress of Psychology, 8-13 August, 2004, Beijing, China.
• Turkish Psychological Association; Turkish Social Science Association.
• Member, Advisory Board, Educational Reform Initiative
• Member of the Evaluation Board of the European Science Foundation’s Standing Committees in the Social Sciences and Humanities
• Vice President and Member, Executive Council of the International Social Science Council (under the auspices of UNESCO (2002- present)
• Member of the Policy Comittee for Science in Developing Countries of the International Council for Science (ICSU)