RIFAT KAMAŞAK

Rifat Kamasak is Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship. He also holds board membership positions in several companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange. He worked in the food, confectionery, carpet, textile, aluminium, metal, retailing, trading and consulting industries for nearly twenty years. He has conducted research, provided consultancy, and delivered training at numerous organisations, while also running his family’s traditional handmade carpet business. Having completed his bachelor’s degree in economics and his postgraduate diploma in international management at the University of Istanbul, he received his MA in marketing from Middlesex University, London, MA in management from Durham University, and MSc in applied linguistics from the University of Oxford and PhD in management studies from the University of Exeter.

Strategic management, entrepreneurship, knowledge and innovation and diversity management.