Olgun Cicek
Olgun Cicek
Prof.Dr.

As a Business Professor, international Higher Education Leader and Senior expert on internationalisation, quality assurance and accreditaton as well as education & training and project expert, I have been working at HEIs, QAAs, Ministries, Councils and Associations as Vice-Rector, Dean,  Vice President, Board Member, Senior Advisor, senior evaluator, external examiner, supervisor, senior consultant, senior trainer and research fellow roles with a demonstrated experience within ten countries in EHEA and beyond fort he last 30 years.

After completing his postgraduate education at University of Surrey in the UK, he worked as an Instructor at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Business Administration in 1992. He completed his PhD at the same university and received the title of Assistant Professorship in 1998.

In 2001, he moved abroad and worked in different countries for 21 years (N.Cyprus, Dubai, Singapore, Switzerland, Türkiye, UK and USA) in public and private universities with various tasks and projects, assuming different roles ranging from Head of Department to Vice Rector. During this time abroad, he received the title of Associate Professor in Dubai in 2005 and Full Professor in the TRNC in 2013. He also served as a Member of the Executive Board of the YODAK (Higher Education Planning, Evaluation, Accreditation and Coordination Council) in N.Cyprus between 2014-2022.

Currently, he is an elected Board Member of INQAAHE (International Network for Qality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education), Vice President of CEENQA (Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education), also Vice President of IQA (Association of Quality Assurance Agencies of the Islamic World).

Additionally, he is an elected member of the CHEA-CIQG (Council for Higher Education Accreditation) International Advisory Council in the USA since 2022, and Accreditation Committee member of British Accreditation Council (BAC) in the UK since 2020. He is an affiliate of ECA (European Consortium for Accreditation in Germany, He also serves as an Honorary President of ECLBS (European Council of Leading Business Schools), reviewer/ evaluator for many institutional and program accreditation organizations in America, Europe, Middle East, and Far East (QAA, NVAO, AQAS, OCQAS etc.), and an external evaluator and advisor for TKTA and IAAR. 

olguncicek@yahoo.com