Professor Erkan Erdemir graduated from the Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations in 1996. He received his master’s degree from the Osmangazi University in 2000 and his Ph.D. degree from the Anadolu University in 2007. He spent a year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business as a visiting scholar between 2010 and 2011. After returning to Turkey, he worked at Istanbul Sehir University until 2020. He joined Maltepe University as a faculty member in 2020. He is currently the rector of the University of New York Tirana in Albania