İoanna Kuçuradi


İoanna Kuçuradi is a Turkish philosopher from Istanbul. She is currently the president of Philosophical Society of Turkey and a full-time academic of Maltepe University and member of the board of trustees at Koç University.
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Biography

She was born on October 4, 1936, in Istanbul, Turkey, to a family of Greek descent. After finishing Zappeion Greek Gymnasium for Girls in Istanbul in 1954, she studied philosophy at Istanbul University, from where she graduated with a B.A. degree in 1959. She earned a Ph.D. degree at the same university in 1965. İoanna Kuçuradi worked as an assistant professor at her alma mater and the Atatürk University in Erzurum.
In 1968, she joined Hacettepe University, Ankara, where she founded and chaired the Department of Philosophy until 2005. From 1997 to 2005, Kuçuradi was the founding director of the Centre for Research and Application of the Philosophy of Human Rights at Hacettepe University and Director of the M.A. and Ph.D. programmes of human rights. She is also a holder of a UNESCO Chair of Philosophy since 1998. Since 2006, Kuçuradi teaches philosophy and acts as director of the Centre for Research and Application of Human Rights at Maltepe University.
İoanna Kuçuradi is, and had been, a member of several associations and bodies, among which are the Philosophical Society of Turkey, the Afro-Asian Philosophy Association, the International Federation of Philosophical Societies, the High Advisory Council for Human Rights of the Prime Ministry of Turkey, the International Institute of Philosophy, Paris, the National Advisory Council for Human Rights of Turkey, the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, Vienna and the Turkish National Committee of the UN Decade for Human Rights Education.

Honours

Kuçuradi has received numerous honors, among which: