İsmail ÇETİNKAYA, who graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Information and Records Management in 1998, completed his master's degree in Business Administration at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University. He worked as a Researcher in the Ministry of Forestry's Ottoman Period Forestry Research Project and publication, as a Librarian at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and as an Instructor at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, and mainly conducted Medical Librarianship and Medical Documentation courses. Çetinkaya served as the Head of the Library and Documentation Department at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University between 2006 and 2021, and has been working as the Head of the Library and Documentation Department at Isparta University of Applied Sciences since January 19, 2021. Çetinkaya, who conducted the Science Board Membership and Information Literacy course in the Primary and Secondary Education Project Execution and Science Counseling Education Project (Science Counseling Workshop in Education) carried out by the TÜBİTAK Scientist Support Department in 2007-2008, and in 2014, he was appointed by the Higher Education Board to study the University Libraries Study. Group (Improving University Libraries and Setting Standards) and was among those who prepared the report titled “The Current Situation of University Libraries in Turkey Towards 2023, Problems, Standards and Suggestions for Solutions”. Çetinkaya, who has been served as ANKOS Board Member since 2010, has been served as ANKOS President since August 05, 2022. He continues to share his professional knowledge and experience by taking part in many national and international events in the fields of librarianship and publishing. Çetinkaya is married and has one child.

Feray Eldeniz is working under the Head of Education and Culture, General Directorate of Sectoral and Public Investment at the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, Presidency of Strategy and Budget Turkish Presidency Strategy and Budget. Her main tasks are the execution and coordination of public investments in the field of education, and she is responsible for the coordination of relevant parties, including the private sector and non-governmental organizations, to generate the education part of the Development Plans, which guide and frame the social, cultural and economic agenda. The Development Plans are the highest-level policy framework, for a period of five years.  On the other hand, Feray Eldeniz takes part in all kinds of policy-making processes related to education administration.

I completed my undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University in 2008, with high-honor degree. She studied MSc Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and completed her studies with a high merit degree. Feray Eldeniz is currently conducting her PhD studies in the field of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University (METU). Her research interests are education economics, education-employment policy, higher education policy and management.

Tuba has been working in academic libraries for over 24 years at different capacities. She started her career as a systems librarian following her graduation from Indiana University with an MLS. Currently, she works as the library director position at Koç University which is one of the most prominent universities in Turkey.  Within the scope of this position, she manages 5 libraries in 3 different cities in the country. Collection development, e-resources management, library automation, resource sharing and scholarly communication are some of the areas she is responsible for.

She has been actively involved with the Turkish national university libraries consortium (ANKOS) governance, including as its President between 2016-2018. She is an active advocator of open science in the region.

She serves on various national, regional and international advisory boards. She is member of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee.

Sami Çuhadar completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Information and Document Management at Istanbul University and his BA in Economics at Anadolu University. He continues his PhD studies in Information and Document Management at Çankırı Karatekin University.

Sami Cukadar is the Library Director at Istanbul Bilgi University Library and e-Resources in Istanbul, Turkey. He is also an academic staff at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law and teaches “Research Methods and Accessing Legal Information Resources” to the first year Law School students.

Mr. Çuhadar is also active in non-governmental organizations in the field of librarianship and information management. He is the former president and board member of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS) and coordinator of UNAK-Turkish Platform of Law Librarians. He has written and made studies on fields of total quality management, distance learning and university libraries. His current research focuses on legal information, information literacy, distance education, university libraries, consortiums and ERM.

Halise Özdemirci was born in Ankara in 1969. She graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Librarianship, in 1991. He worked as a librarian at the Ministry of Culture Ankara Polatlı and Cebeci Public Libraries between 1992 and 1994 nd as an expert at the Higher Education Council National Documentation Center Periodicals Unit between 1994 and 1996 he started working as a specialist librarian at the TubitakTUBITAK National Academic Network and Information Center in 1996. 
Özdemirci currently works as the project coordinator of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Electronic Information Resources Archive Scanning System (EBKATS), and carries out post-license rights, continuous access rights, local archiving of data and related process management studies within the scope of electronic databases license agreements. She is married and has a child.