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