Prof. Özcan Demirel was born on the 1st of March in 1943 at Sapanca in Turkey. He graduated from Ankara - Gazi Teacher Training College, the Department of English Language Teaching in 1964 and was awarded his PhD degree in Curriculum and Instruction in 1979. He has been working at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education for 34 years. He is the Head of the Department of Educational Sciences and the Division of Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Demirel is the author of 20 books on education and the co-author of 10 books on English and English Language Teaching. He also published about 60 articles and presented 90 papers on curriculum development, teacher education and English language teaching. He worked in different educational projects of World Bank, UNESCO; UNICEF, European Union and the Council of Europe as  the national coordinator for Turkey. At present, he is the vice-president of the Balkan Society of Pedagogy and Education.