Prof. received his bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University, his master's degree in International Relations and Strategic Research at Lancaster University, and his doctorate in Political Science and International Relations.Dr.Mustafa Aydın served as a faculty member at Ankara University (1994-2005), Head of International Relations Department at TOBB-Economy and Technology University (2005-2009) and Rector of Kadir Has University (2010-2018).He was a guest researcher at Michigan (1998), Harvard (2002) and Athens (2003), as well as RichardsonInstituteforPeaceStudies (1999), EU Institutefor Security Studies (2003) and InstitutfürdieWissenschaftenvomMenschen (2018).Aydın, who is currently a faculty member at Kadir Has University, is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Relations Council, Co-Coordinator of the Turkish Greek Forum and a member of the Board of Directors of the World Council for MiddleEasternStudies.Aydın, who has worked in many think tanks, including Head of the Turkestan Desk of the Eurasian Strategic Research Center (1999-2003), Director of the International Policy Research Institute (2005-2011) and Co-Chairman of the International Black Sea Commission (2010), is currently the Coordinator of the Global Academy and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Relations magazine and Panorama Portal.Prof.Aydin is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Senate of the Euro-Mediterranean University (Slovenia).
