Emeritus Professor Dr. Bill Williamson
Emeritus Professor Bill Williamson BSc(Soc), MA, PhD, began his academic career as a lecturer in sociology and retired from university life as a Professor of Continuing Education in Durham University. His academic work and publications crossed several boundaries: the sociology of education, comparative education, social and contemporary history and the theory and practice of lifelong learning. His most recent work has focused on educational aspects of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The threads that draw these themes together have three main strands: the importance of history, the seamless interdependence of the personal and the political and the need to understand how lifeworlds and learning inter-connect. In retirement, his main academic interest is to explore the role of imagination in human experience and its role now in building a just, democratic and sustainable future for us all. His belief is that to build a better world, we first have to imagine it. The social sciences and humanities have a critically important role in this. but they, too have to be re-imagined.
He is married with two children and six grandchildren who keep him and his wife both busy and amused.
IGA Chief Digital and Commercial Officer Ersin İnankul
İnankul started his career in 1998 and has worked as a Project Manager and Consultant in the fields of Airport Systems, Telecommunication, Complex System Integration, and Process Optimization. Upon joining the TAV group in 2005, he continued his professional activities as IT Project Manager of two airports in Georgia. Between the years of 2007 and 2010, he served as IT and Integration Project Manager of two airports in North Africa. İnankul subsequently took office as Infrastructure Manager in TAV Information Technologies and advanced in his career to be the Deputy General Manager of his company. He served as CIO of IGA Construction Group who is constructing the world's biggest airport at Istanbul to manage all IT packages from 2015 to 2018. He is currently working as Chief Digital and Commercial officer at IGA group responsible for Commercial development, retail management, F&B operations and all new digital services improvement and also member of executive committee of IST Systems
Dr. Salvatore Scifo
Salvatore is Deputy Head of Department in Communication and Journalism at the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, where he is also a member of Centre of Media History and an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community. In 2011 he completed his doctoral research at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, on The Origins and Development of Community Radio in Britain under New Labor (1997-2007). He was Secretary (2007-2011) and Vice President (2011-2013) of the Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE). Since August 2016 he is the Co-Chair of the Community Communication and Alternative Media Section of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). He has previously worked in Istanbul (Marmara University, Maltepe University and Koc University), London (University of Westminster and London Metropolitan University) and the University of Siena, where he was Deputy Director of the first Italian university radio station Facolta’ di Frequenza