Mehmet Teoman Alemdar

M. Teoman Alemdar is the Director of the Hotel Management Program, School of Applied Sciences at Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has stepped in to the tourism industry in 1976 starting to work for Macka Hotel, Istanbul and then has transferred to Etap Hotel in Tepebası, Istanbul where he worked until the end of 1981. In early 1992, he moved to USA to study Hotel Management major at the Florida International University. He has received his B.S. in Hospitality Management from the Florida International University in 1988. In Florida, USA he worked for Sheraton and Holday Inn hotels and Don Cesar Beach Resort. Upon his return to Turkey, he has served as the General Manager of the Serapsu Beach Resort, in Alanya, Antalya, a newly established five star property. In 1991, he joined the academic ranks at Bilkent University's Tourism and Hotel Management Programs as an instructor, eventually becoming department chairman in 1996, only to leave the position at the end of 2008 to join Özyeğin University and to establish Turkey's first "hotel management" program.

M. Teoman Alemdar is a member of the I-CHRIE, EuroCHRIE and SKAL Interantional Istanbul Club. M. Teoman Alemdar has served as the President of the EuroCHRIE Federation and as the Board of Director of the I-CHRIE in 2006-2007.