SPEAKERS
ISF 2023

A total of 63 speakers will participate in the Istanbul Security Forum, which will last for 2 days in total.

Ahmet Yeşiltepe

Journalist at NTV

Amanda Paul

Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre

Ambassador Dr. Hasan Ulusoy

Chairman, Center for Strategic Research

Ambassador Egemen Bağış

Turkish Ambassador to Prague

Ambassador Kubanychbek Omuraliev

Secretary - General of Organization of Turkic States

Ambassador Štefan Füle

Former European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy

Assoc. Prof. Altuğ Günar

Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University

Assoc. Prof. Erman Akıllı

Kırşehir Ahi Evran University

Assoc. Prof. İsmail Erkam Sula

Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University

Assoc. Prof. Kılıç Buğra Kanat

Research Director at SETA Foundation Washington DC

Assoc. Prof. Murat Tınas

Turkish National Police Academy

Assoc. Prof. Nozima Muratova

Vice Rector, University of Journalism and Mass Communications of Uzbekistan

Assoc. Prof. Oğuz Güner

Head of the Department of Public Diplomacy of Presidency's Directorate of Communications of the Republic of Türkiye

Assoc. Prof. Öner Akgül

Kırşehir Ahi Evran University

Assoc. Prof. Şuay Nilhan Açıkalın

Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University

Caitlin Chin

Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Daria Isachenko

Researcher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

Daryl Swanepoel

CEO, Inclusive Society Institute

Dr. Aidar Kurmashev

Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies

Dr. Ali Bakır

Qatar University's Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Dr. Burak Güneş

Ahi Evran University

Dr. Kaan Kutlu Ataç

Mersin University

Dr. Koert Debeuf

Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Middle East Studies at the Brussels School of Governance

Dr. Maria Saifuddin Effendi

National Defence University, Pakistan

Dr. Recep Şehitoğlu

Gaziantep University

Dr. Valeria Giannotta

Coordinator, CeSPI Türkiye Observation Centre

Ellen Wasylina

President and founder, Trocadéro Forum Institute (TFI)

Eric Schell

Managing Partner, Cabinet Schell and Advocaxio Euro MENA, Executive Chairman, The Global Diwan

Farrukh Khakimov

Head of Departmen at Development Strategy Center, Uzbekistan

İpek Tekdemir

Political Advisor, European Parliament

Javid Musayev

Head of the Communication Policy Sector of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Jordan Morgan

Middle East Programme Director, Forward Thinking

Julika Luts

Councellor to Estonian Permanent Representative to the EU and Antici Representative to the Council of the EU

Karim Elgendy

Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Kevin Klyman

Lead Technology Researcher, Belfer Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School

Klaus Jürgens

Economyfirst Limited London, Director

Marko Šorin

Estonian Centre Party, Former Member of the Inter Parliamentary Estonia-Türkiye Friendship Group

Martin Sokolov

Associate Fellow, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Matthias Lüfkens

Senior Manager, DigiTips

Mustafa Başkara

Director of Ankara University National Center for the Sea and Maritime Law

Nicola Pedde

Director of Institute for Global Studies

Oliver McTernan

Director and co-Founder, Forward Thinking

Paolo von Schirach

President of the Global Policy Institute (GPI), Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Bay Atlantic University, BAU, Washington D.C.

Paul E. M. Reynolds

Author, Analyst

Prof. Ahmet Uysal

Director of Middle Eastern Studies Center

Prof. Altan Çakır

İstanbul Technical University

Prof. Birol Akgün

Chairman, Turkish Maarif Foundation, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University

Prof. Chong-Jin Oh

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Prof. Ece Baban

Fenerbahçe University

Prof. Fırat Purtaş

Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University

Prof. Giray Sadık

Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University

Prof. Giwoong Jung

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Prof. Gültekin Yıldız

National Defence University

Prof. İrfan Kaya Ülger

Kocaeli University

Prof. Luís Tomé

Full Professor/Director, Department of International Relations – Autonomous University of Lisbon; Senior Researcher of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI)

Prof. Nicholas J. Cull

University of Southern California

Prof. Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney

Nişantaşı University

Prof. Özden Zeynep Oktav

İstanbul Medeniyet University

Prof. Tjandra Yoga Aditama

Former Director of Communicable Diseases (CDS) at World Health Organization’s South East Asia Regional Office (SEARO)

Prof. Toshiya Hoshino

Inspector, Joint Inspector Unit of the United Nations System

Ryszard Czarnecki

Member of the European Parliament

Volkan Öskiper

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye Deputy Director General for NATO and European Atlantic Security Affairs