Hakan Karatas - Aselsan Elektronik President

Assoc. Prof. Hakan Karatas has served Vice President, Corporationrationrate Management and Human Resources Management Member of the Executive Board of ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI since July 2, 2018. He completed his higher education at the Istanbul Universitesi Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Department of English Language and Education. He was employed as a Teacher of English at the prestigious Kabatas Boys High School in Istanbul between 19962000, and as a Lecturer in the Foreign Languages Department of Yildiz Teknik Universitesi in 2000, where he also continued his career as Deputy Head of the Human Resources Development Centre in 2003. He worked as Executive Assistant to the Rector of Yildiz Teknik Universitesi from 2004 to 2008, in the meantime he completed his Masters Degree at the Education Sciences Faculty Department of Education Programs and Teaching in 2007, and later earned his Doctorate from the same Department in 2011. He was employed as an Assistant Professor at the YTU Faculty of Education in 2012. Later in 2016, he was awarded with his Associate Professorship in the field of Educational Sciences by the Interuniversity Board. He continued his career as Advisor to the Rector of Yildiz Technical University. Also, he carried out his duties as Director of the Lifelong Education Centre starting from 2009 to 2016. In the meantime he was directly involved in activities and projects related to quality control, institutional development, international relations development, and transfer of overseas lecturers and students at YTU. He was also a Member of the Board of Yildiz Technopark Inc. and Yildiz Technology Transfer Office Inc. He served as Advisor to the President of Gebze Technical University and as the Administrative Coordinator of the same institution from 2014 to 2018 since 2018.