Ibrahim Ozdemir

İBRAHİM ÖZDEMİR is a professor of philosophy and the Founding President of Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep Turkey. Currently, he is Professor of Philosophy at Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey.

He holds a Doctorate degree in philosophy from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara and a Bachelor’s degree in Islamic Theology and Islamic Philosophy from Ankara University, Turkey.

Dr. Özdemir’s major is environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. However, he is a generalist with a wide variety of scholarly and pedagogical interests, which include ethics, history of philosophy, modern philosophy, philosophy of education and philosophy of higher education.

His publications include The Ethical Dimension of Human Attitude Towards Nature, 2nd edition, Insan Publications: Istanbul, 2008, and Globalization, Ethics and Islam, editors: Ian Markham and Ibrahim Ozdemir, Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005.

In August 2015, he was part of the drafting team of the Islamic Declaration for Global Climate Change.

He was a consultant at UNEP (United Nation Environmental Program), 2015–2016, New York, USA.