Ali Alkis is the World Institute for Nuclear Security Ambassador to Turkey and a Ph.D. candidate at Hacettepe University in in Ankara, Turkey. Alkis is one of the few male members of the Black Sea Women in Nuclear Network and has been recently appointed as the Gender Champion at the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation. His research interests are nuclear security, non-proliferation, and nuclear terrorism, as well as Turkish nuclear and foreign policies.