Tolga Kashif Conductor / Composer / Producer / Arranger London-born diverse musician Tolga Kashif is at home recording both Richard Strauss and contemporary classics. Kashif studied conducting and composition at the Royal College of Music. He made his professional debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and has guested with various others including the City of London Sinfonia, Northern Sinfonia and Wren Orchestra. In 1992 Kashif was appointed Associate Director of the London Amadeus Choir following a series of successful concerts with [...]

Jean-Pierre Gauci King’s College London Jean-Pierre is a PhD candidate with the School of Law at King’s College London. His doctoral research is on the inter-relations between human trafficking and asylum and specifically whether, and the conditions under which, refugee law offers a means for the protection of trafficked persons. Jean-Pierre is also the founder and director of The People for Change Foundation, and serves as consultant to various entities including the Maltese Government and European and [...]

Valentina Zigante London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Valentina Zigante has a background in economics and has, after receiving her MSc degree from University of Lund, Sweden, held positions with the UNDP Croatia and the Eurofound in Dublin researching individual well-being and quality of life. Valentina's PhD investigated individual well-being effects of consumer choice policies in health and long-term care in European countries. Before joining the PSSRU she worked as a lecturer in comparative social [...]

Esra Kaytaz DPhil, University of Oxford Esra Kaytaz is currently working on her DPhil in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford where she previously read Archaeology and Anthropology (BA) and Development Studies (MPhil). Esra’s doctoral research is focused on understanding how Afghan migrants and refugees in Turkey perceive and negotiate risks and uncertainties related to their migratory choices in Turkey. She completed her fieldwork in January 2012. Her master’s research was similarly based on understanding the [...]

Dr Fatih Serbest Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London Fatih Serbest obtained his PhD from the Dickson Poon School of Law at Kings College London studying Fast-track Arbitration under the supervision  of Professor Phillip Capper. He practices public international law, international dispute resolution and international construction law. Mr. Serbest advises and represents sovereign States, international organizations and private clients on a wide range of public international law and international dispute resolution issues. These include: the protection [...]

Dr Fabian Zhilla The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London Fabian Zhilla joined King’s College Law School to commence his MPhil/PhD program in September 2008 and was advanced to PhD student status in July 2009. Fabian has been awarded the prestigious Chevening Scholarship by the British Council; USAID East Central Europe Visiting Scholarship; and the Soros Foundation Open Society Scholarship for his studies. Fabian Zhilla comes to King’s with an LLB degree from University of [...]

Dr Aytac Yildiz Lecturer, Yuzuncu yil University Dr Aytac Yildiz holds an undergraduate degree from the Department of Journalism at Ankara University, where he thereafter completed his master and PhD studies in history. Dr. Yildiz is the author of several articles in Turkish and international journals. His recent book, Üç Dönem Bir Aydın: Burhan Asaf Belge (1899-1967), has been published by Turkey-based Iletisim Publishing House in 2011.  Dr. Yildiz’s research interest covers westernisation, orientalism, modernisation and the history of Turkish Republic. [...]

Roberto Orsi Co-investigator, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Roberto Orsi is a co-investigator on the Euro Crisis in the Press project. He holds a PhD International Relations and is currently Project Assistant Professor at the Policy Alternative Reasearch Institute (政策ビジョン研究センター) of the University of Tokyo (Japan). His research interests focus on international political theory, history of ideas (particularly modern continental political philosophy and critical theory), political theology (Carl Schmitt). He is also interested in [...]

Alev Yaman Researcher, English PEN Alev Yaman completed a BSc in Government and Economics at the London School of Economics and is now studying law at BPP Law School. At present, she is based at the London Centre for Social Studies (LCSS) and is working on a project entitled ‘Raising Expectations’, which aims to promote educational attainment amongst the Turkish speaking community in Britain. Previously, she has been actively involved in professional organizations including the Turkish British [...]

Arnaud Vaganay London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Arnaud Vaganay is a researcher in political science and research methodology. Currently a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Department of Methodology, he is primarily interested in the mechanisms that shape research decisions in a political context – even though his curiosity sometimes takes him far beyond these issues. These interests stem from his previous experience as an evaluation [...]

Dr Tozun Issa Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University Dr. Issa has worked as a qualified primary school teacher and as an adviser for various Education Authorities for a number of years before his appointment as a senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University in 2003. He currently lectures on the Primary as well as Secondary (Modern Foreign Languages) teacher training programmes. He is the director of Centre for Multilingualism in Education, London Metropolitan University. Dr. Issa’s research interests [...]

Dr Suleyman Nalbant Lecturer, University of Ulster After graduating from Geophysical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University in 1987, Dr. Nalbant started his academic career as Research Assistant in Geophysics Department of Istanbul University in the same year. He was awarded a scholarship to carry out postgraduate studies in the United States after taking a nationwide competency examination in 1988. He gained his MSc degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, USA in 1990, and subsequently his PhD degree [...]

Dr K Onur Unutulmaz University of Oxford K. Onur Unutulmaz obtained a DPhil in Anthropology, at the University of Oxford. He is affiliated with the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) of the Oxford University.  His research aims at uncovering the complex processes of identitiy transformation in the understudies minority group of Turkish-speaking immigrants which is becoming more and more visible in London. He graduated with an MPhil in [...]

Dr Mehmet Ugur Reader in European Political Economy, University of Greenwich Dr Mehmet Ugur is a reader in European Political Economy at the University of Greenwich. Dr Ugur specialises in regional integration theory, global regional institutions, corporate governance and EU-Turkey relations. He was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair title in 1997, led a masters programme in European Public Policy until 2002, contributed to a large number of conferences, and currently leads the MA/MSc programme in Business and [...]

Prof Bulent Gokay Politics and International Relations , Keele University Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations and Head of the School for Politics and International Relations at Keele University, Chair of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies and Managing Editor of Global Faultlines. He joined Keele University in 1996 from Wolfson College, Cambridge, where he had been a postdoctoral Research Fellow for the previous three years. Before coming to Keele, [...]

Enver Gulseven Brunel University Holds a BA degree in International Relations from the Eastern Mediterranean University and an MA degree in European Politics from the University of Essex. Currently he is working towards his PhD at Brunel University on Turkish foreign policy where he also works as a part-time lecturer. His interests include Turkish foreign policy, foreign policy behaviour and identity.

Capt Dr B Sitki Ustaoglu Alternate Permanent Representative, International Maritime Organization Capt Dr B Sitki Ustaoglu is a master mariner currently representing Turkey at the International Maritime Organization as the Alternate Permanent Representative. He was assistant professor at the Maritime Faculty of Istanbul Technical University until 2003 and the deputy under-secretary at the Turkish Maritime Administration (Undersecretariat for Maritime Affairs) from early 2003 to mid 2006 before taking up his position based in London.  His MSc is [...]

Tuncay Babali Former Embassy of the Republic of Turkey Mr. Tuncay BABALI graduated from International Relations Department of Marmara University, Istanbul, in 1994. He obtained his MA degree at SOAS (Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Caucasus 1991-1995), London in 1995 and joined the MFA service of Turkey that year. Between 1998-2003, he worked as the Third Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria and as Vice Consul at the Turkish Consulate in Houston, Texas. While in [...]

Dr Gulfem Cakir Researcher, University of Kent Gulfem Cakir received her BSc (Hons) and MSc in Psychological Counselling and Guidance from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey.   She worked for the Ministry of Education (MONE) from 1999 to 2002, in Turkey. After MONE, she worked as a researcher at METU in several research projects. Since April 2005, Gulfem is a Visiting Training Fellow at European Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care at University [...]

Dr Tunc Aybak Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University Dr. Tunc Aybak is currently a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, in the Politics and International Relations Department. He lectures on the European Union, globalization, international economy policies and geopolitics of the black sea region. His latest book is entitled Politics of the Black Sea: Dynamics of Cooperation and Conflict. Aybak graduated from Ankara University, International Relations Department. He holds a PhD from Hull University on Dynamics of the EU’s [...]

Alev Adil Lecturer, University of Greenwich Alev Adil lectures at the University of Greenwich where she is head of the department of Creative, Critical and Communication Studies. She is a writer, reviewer and translator whose poetry, fiction and academic writing engages with the mythic, post-colonial identities and the interstices of private and political memory. She is widely published. Recent academic publications include Writing the (post-oriental) Self for Interaction : international journal of British and American Culture, 2006; Viewing [...]

Dr Mehmet Ali DikerdemSenior Lecturer, Middlesex University Dr. Mehmet Ali Dikerdem has been involved with Middlesex University for many years, teaching a wide range of courses on Third World development, social, urban and ethnic policy studies in social sciences and humanities, and was appointed 0.5 Lecturer in 1990 in social policy and ethnic studies, and was a founding member of the Race & Culture honours programme (1995-2001). He was also appointed 0.5 Lecturer at Bristol University's postgraduate Development Studies programme (1991-95)where he worked [...]

Kerem Öktem Research Fellow, European Studies Centre, University of Oxford Kerem Oktem is Research Fellow at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College and teaches the Politics of the Middle East at the Oriental Institute. He read Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford, where he also completed his D. Phil. thesis at the School of Geography in 2006. In the thesis, he explored the destruction of imperial space in the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent construction of [...]

Arthur Mitski PhD in Social Anthropology, The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) My thesis develops analytical tools to explore the interaction of the social and the psychological that defines our decisions, actions and life-courses. Critically approaching both modernist and post-modernist epistemes, it suggests humanistic ways towards the synthesis stage in social sciences, self-reflexive social agency as an art d’existence, and a non-Cartesian cross-disciplinary research model. It proposes a fundamentally different way to account for social [...]

Gabriela Pina Ahumada London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) PhD in Social Anthropology, LSE; (Completion anticipated 2017)MSc in Social Anthropology, LSE; 2013 (Dissertation: “Family Matters. Kinshiptheory and the evolutionary origins of human sociability”) BA (Licenciate) in Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 2010BA (Licenciate) in Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 2009Academic Exchange, Ruprecht-Karl-Universität Heidelberg, Germany; 2007 ACADEMIC INTERESTS Anthropology of childhood, Kinship, Language, Medical Anthropology,Anthropology of consumption, Motherhood, Child Fostering and Adoptions [...]