I grew up in Nicosia, and I have spent my life moving between two worlds that are usually kept apart: philosophy and business. When I wanted to do a doctorate in philosophy, no university in my hometown offered one, so I brought philosophy into a business faculty instead. My doctoral research asked what happens to teachers when AI enters their classrooms, reading their experience through Marx's theory of alienation in both a qualitative and a quantitative study. From 2020 to 2026 I also taught at Near East University, where my courses included marketing principles, research methods, and business ethics.

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The centre of my work today is the philosophy and ethics of technology: AI ethics, governance, and the moral consequences of digital systems, and above all the question of how technological change reshapes responsibility, judgement, and human agency. Though before AI, there was medicine. My master's thesis introduced a concept I called refined utilitarianism, and tested it against NHS practice and NICE guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic, an idea I later developed in published papers. Medical ethics has stayed with me ever since, and I have written with the health economist A. J. Culyer, founding vice-chair of NICE, on deliberation and decision-making in health technology assessment. Every so often I also stray into epistemology for the sheer pleasure of it. One of those detours became a peer-reviewed paper defending justified true belief by pairing it with diachronic justification.

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The business side is not a sideline. I founded Azizem, a lokum brand built on tradition and craftsmanship, and I chair Ayyanni Holding, my family's group of ventures in retail and food production in Cyprus. Running these companies keeps my philosophy honest. Questions about labour, automation, and dignity feel different when the people affected by a decision have names and working hours, and I write about ethics as someone who also has to practise it, on ordinary days, in ordinary businesses.

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What drives all of it is a simple worry of mine - that efficiency-driven innovation quietly changes work, education, and everyday life before anyone has asked whether we want those changes. I am not a pessimist about technology, but I resist the easy optimism that treats every gain in speed as a gain for people. My aim, in scholarship and in practice, is to take these transformations seriously and to keep sight of the conditions in which people actually live and work.

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“Do not go gentle into that coded night

Rage, rage against the surveilled light

Fight the blight that chains our right to fight”

 

Excerpt from a paper of mine, available here.​