Serhan Ada is professor and the founder of the Management of Performing Arts (BA) and Art and Cultural Management (BA, MA and PhD) Serhan Ada is professor and the founder of the Management of Performing Arts (BA) and Art and Cultural Management (BA, MA and PhD) Programmes of Istanbul Bilgi University and the founding Director of santralistanbul, an international center for arts, culture, converted from the Silahtarağa Power Plant, the first urban-scale power plant of the Ottoman Empire. He was also the director of the graduate level (certificate) Programme of Fashion Management, and also Design Culture and Management at the same university. Ada has been visiting professor at University IUAV of Venice (2012, 2013 and 2014 scheduled) and GIOCA (Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts Master Programme) at University of Bologna(2011), Deputy President of the Turkish National Commission of UNESCO’s Committee on Cultural Diversity, director respectively at the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, etc.