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İbrahim Özdemir

Professor of Philosophy, Uskudar University; Visiting Professor, Clark University

Professor of Philosophy, Uskudar University; Visiting Professor, Clark University Dr Ibrahim Özdemir is professor of philosophy at Uskudar University, Istanbul, an environmental philosopher and Senior Advisor to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). He is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uskudar University, where he is head of its Forum for Environmental Ethics. He is also visiting assistant professor at the Center for Gender, Race and Area Studies at Clark University. Previously he was director-general at the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Turkish Ministry of Education. He was a lead member of the drafting team for the Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change endorsed by the UN United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and a lead member of the drafting team behind the Al-Mizan Covenant for Earth documented adopted by the UNEP’s Faith For Earth Initiative.