
Volkan Öskiper
Program Details
13:30 - 15:00
Ambassador – Deputy Director General Volkan Öskiper graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of International Relations in 1997. In the same year, he started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served at the Austrian and Kazakhstan Embassies. Afterwards, Öskiper served at the General Directorate of Multilateral Political Affairs and worked as Undersecretary at the UN Office in Geneva.
Between 2012 and 2014, he served as the Head of OSCE Arms Control and Disarmament Division and was later appointed as NATO Undersecretary of Defense.
Öskiper, who served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Azerbaijan Embassy between 2018-2019, was appointed as Deputy Director General for NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defense Affairs in 2021.