Sinan Ülgen

Ulgen is chairman of the Istanbul-based think tank EDAM and a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. He has served in the Turkish foreign service in several capacities and was among the international security experts tasked by NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen with reporting on the transatlantic relationship in advance of NATO's September 2014 summit. His research focuses on nuclear policy, the implications of Turkish foreign policy for Europe and the United States, and the security and economic aspects of transatlantic relations. He is co-author of The European Transformation of Modern Turkey.