Serhan Ada is the head of the Cultural Management (B.A. and M.A.) Program of Istanbul Bilgi University and the founding director of santralistanbul, an international center for arts and culture. Among other positions, he is also vice chairman of Anadolu Kültür A.S. and interim president of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO on Cultural Diversity. He earned a B.Sc from the International Relations Programme at Ankara University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the Middle East Technical University. He is a Fellow of Session 482 Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture (2011).