Dr. Abdullah Bağci, a lecturer at Hacettepe University, has held various academic and administrative positions at public and private universities in Turkey. He earned his MS in Educational Administration and Planning from Middle East Technical University and completed his Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Policy at Ankara University.
He first joined IISE in the 2015-2016 academic year as a visiting graduate student, and conducted research for his doctoral dissertation titled "The Perceptions of Higher Education Administrators in Turkey and the USA Regarding the Marketization of Higher Education." He has returned to the University of Pittsburgh as a visiting scholar for the 2024-2025 academic year to work on his research project on the internationalization of higher education. His academic interests include the economics of education, comparative education, and higher education.