Background
Kuçuradi, Ioanna was born on October 4, 1936 in Istanbul, Turkey. Daughter of Georgios and Efimia (Sotiriadu) Kuçuradi.
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Kuçuradi, Ioanna was born on October 4, 1936 in Istanbul, Turkey. Daughter of Georgios and Efimia (Sotiriadu) Kuçuradi.
After finishing Zappeion Greek Gymnasium for Girls in Istanbul in 1954, she studied philosophy at Istanbul University, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the same university in 1965.
She is currently the president of Philosophical Society of Turkey and a full-time academic of Maltepe University. Ioanna Kuçuradi worked as an assistant professor at her alma mater and the Atatürk University in Erzurum. From 1997 to 2005, Kuçuradi was founding director of the Centre for Research and Application of the Philosophy of Human Rights at Hacattepe University.
She is also holder of a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 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. Ioanna Kucuradi is a holder of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Chair of Philosophy of Human Rights since 1998 at Hacettepe University and since 2009 in Maltepe University.
She is also director of the Centre for Research and Application of Human Rights at Maltepe University. She has worked at Istanbul University, Atatürk University, Hacettepe University and Yeditepe University since 1959.
Chair High Advisory Council Human Rights Turkey, 1994-1996, National Committee World Decade Human Rights Education Turkey, 1998-1905. Member science advisory board International Children's Center, Ankara. Member Philosophical Society Turkey (founding member, president since 1979), International Federation Philosophical Societies (steering committee member since 1983, secretary general 1988-1998, president 98-2003, past president since 2003), Afro-Asian Philosophy Association (founding member, vice president for Asia since 1985), Society for Classical Studies in Turkey, Turkish Society Social Sciences, Deutsches Kulturinstitut Ankara, Institute International de Philosophie, Paris, International Academy Humanism, Greek Philosophical Society (life), Human Rights Foundation Turkey, National Advisory Council Human Rights, Parliament of Cultures, European Monitoring Center Racism and Xenophobia (observer management board since 2004).