PROFFESIONAL PARTICIPATON

-Founding member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (1993-present)
-President and Past President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (1990-1994); Previous offices:
      President-elect and Vice President (1988-1990)
      Deputy Secretary General (1986-1988)
      Executive Council member (1982-1994)
-Vice President (1996-2000) and Executive Council Member of the International Union of Psychological Science (1988-2004), affiliated with ICSU and ISSC under the auspices of UNESCO.
-President of the Turkish Psychological Association (1992-1994)
-Associate Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (1991-1993)
-Present or past Member of Editorial Board:
      International Journal of Psychology
      International Migration
      Turkish Psychology Journal
      Hacettepe Journal of Population Studies
      Journal of Economic Psychology
      Cross-Cultural Psychology Monographs
      Psychology and Developing Societies
      Applied Psychology: An International Review
      Early Childhood Research
      Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
-Member of International Advisory Board of Editors:
      International Handbook of Psychology
      International Encyclopedia of Psychology
-Member of:
      International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
      International Council of Psychologists
      Turkish Psychological Association
      Turkish Social Science Association
      International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
      International Association of Applied Psychology
      Foreign affiliate of the American Psychological Association
-Founding member and Trustee of Turkish Cultural Foundation (1973-present)
-Trustee of AFS International/Intercultural Programs (1978-1987)
-Member of the Advisory Board of Middle East Research Awards in Population and Development (Ford Foundation-IDRC-Population Council) (1986-89)
-Advisor to the Consultative Group an Early Childhood Care and Development,UNICEF (1986-1997)
-Member of the five-person International Board of Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Children's Britannica and Compton's Encyclopedia Turkish Versions. (completed, 1993)
-Organizer of the 8th Biennial International Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology (6-10 July 1986)
-Member of the Simavi Foundation Social Science Award Jury (1981-1993)
-Member of C. T. Gürson Child Health Foundation Award Jury (1985-1993)
-Member of the Milliyet Social Science Award Jury (1986)
-Member of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation IEA Preprimary Project Content Review Panel, (1992-2000)
-Member of the Advisory Board, International Literacy Institute (University of Pennsylvania) (1994-2000)
-Founding member and Scientific Advisor, member of the Board of Directors, Mother-Child Education Foundation (1993-present)
-Member of the Scientific Board, Turkish Foundation for Economic and Social Studies (1996-2000)
-Member of the Aydın Doğan Social Science Jury, 1998
-Member of the Advisory Board of St. Francis College Center for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology, New York
-Honorary member of Turkish Australian Society
-Member of Scientific Committee of CROP (Comparative Research Program on Poverty) of the International Social Science Council (1996-1999)
-Member of the International Children’s Center Board of Advisors (2000-present)
-Member, Koç University, Faculty Council 1995-present)
-Member, Advisory Committee of XVIII. International Congress of Psychology, 8-13 August, 2004, Beijing, China.
-Turkish Psychological Association; Turkish Social Science Association.
-Member, Advisory Board, Educational Reform Initiative (1998-present)
-Member of the Evaluation Board of the European Science Foundation’s Standing Committees in the Social Sciences and Humanities (2002)
-Vice President and Member, Executive Council of the International Social Science Council (under the auspices of UNESCO (2002- 2008)
-Member of the Policy Committee for Science in Developing Countries of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
-Chair, Nominating Committee for Social Sciences of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 2010.
-Honorary President, IACCP Regional Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey, June 30-July 3, 2011.
-Chair, Scientific Committee, The 12th European Congress of Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey, July, 4-8, 2011.
-Member, Faculty Council and Faculty Executive Council, Koç University.
-Scientific Advisor to Parent Education Program, Prime Ministry of Family and Social Research, 2011.
-Member, Global Relations Forum, 2011.