Refik Culpan, Ph.D.

Professor of International Business and Management

Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg    

School of Business Administration 

777 W. Harrisburg Pike 

Middletown, PA 17057, U.S.A 

Tel: (717) 948 6166 

Fax: (717) 948 6456

Education 

• Ph.D. New York University 
• M.P.A. University of Pittsburgh 
• Licence Diploma. Istanbul University

Awards 

•  Founders Day Award - From New York University, in recognition of the highest bracket of scholastic preferment. 
• Provost's Award For Excellence - In Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Penn State Harrisburg in the Area of Teaching. College wide Best Teacher Award.

Academic Experience

Coordinator of Management Program, the School of Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, 1987-1990. 2005-present

President of Faculty Senate, The Capital College, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. 2005-2006.

Tenured Professor of Management and International Business, the School of Business Administration, the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg and World Campus MBA Program, Pennsylvania State University.

Tenured Associate Professor of Management and International Business, the School of Business Administration, the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, 1989-1998.

Also taught at Penn State Great Valley Graduate Professional School.

Graduate faculty member of the Graduate School of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, since 1981.

Assistant Professor of management and international business, the School of Business Administration, the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, 1981-89.

Visiting professor at Konstanz University, Germany, May-July 1993; May-June, 2001

Visiting professor at Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Hamburg, Germany, October 1991-December 1991.

Visiting professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, January 1991 and January 1996.

A visiting Professor of management and international business, School of Business Administration, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, September 1980-January 1981.

Adjunct Professor, City University of New York, 1973-1974.

Chairman and Associate Professor of Management, Business Administration Department, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 1979-1980.

Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, Hacettepe University, Department of Business Administration, 1974-1978

Executive Experience

Personal Advisor to Prime Minister of Turkey, 1993.

CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ETIBANK Bankacilik A.O., a commercial bank in Turkey, 1993-1994.

Vice-President and Board Director of Tourism Bank, Inc. of Republic of Turkey, an investment bank, 1978-1979.

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