A total of 63 speakers will participate in the Istanbul Security Forum, which will last for 2 days in total.
SPEAKERS
ISF 2023
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. Gonca Oğuz Gök
Marmara 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