In addition to her research, Professor Zeynep Aycan is the University’s Director of Global External Engagement and serves as the President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) where she leads global initiatives on culturally informed and inclusive leadership.

Before joining the University, Zeynep was a long-serving faculty member at Koç University in Istanbul. She holds a PhD from Queen’s University (Canada) and completed postdoctoral research at McGill University.

She is internationally recognised for her research on leadership, culture and organisational behaviour. She has a particular interest in the psychological and cultural factors that shape leader emergence and effectiveness.

Her work has been published in leading journals including Nature Reviews Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Management and Leadership Textbook of the Year Award from the Chartered Management Institute and the Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award from the APA for her book Management and Organizations in Cross-Cultural Context".

She enjoys serving as a consultant and executive trainer for numerous multinational corporations, public institutions and NGOs – helping them to build empowering, inclusive and high-impact leadership cultures.